One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNELove 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!
More John Donne Quotes
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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