As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
JOHN DONNEAsk not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
More John Donne Quotes
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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