I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNE