I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never 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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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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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Friends are ourselves.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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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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