I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNEI throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
More John Donne Quotes
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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