Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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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 employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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