Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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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 is an ascension to a better library.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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