O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNEHow imperfect is all our knowledge!
More John Donne Quotes
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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