Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNENo spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
More John Donne Quotes
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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