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.
JOHN DONNEDeath 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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