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.
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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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?
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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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