Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNEI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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 shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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I 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.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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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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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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