Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNEAs 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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