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.
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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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