Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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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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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.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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