If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNEHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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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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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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