To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNENature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
More John Donne Quotes
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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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’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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