Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNELove built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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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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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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