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?
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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There 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.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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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.
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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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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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