In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
JOHN DONNEMore than kisses, letters mingle souls.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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