As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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