I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNENo man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
More John Donne Quotes
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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