In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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