Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNEGod is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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