Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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