Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNEOur critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
More John Donne Quotes
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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