I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNEThere is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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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