Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNEI do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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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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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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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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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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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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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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