No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNEIn heaven it is always autumn.
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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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