Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEIf ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
More John Donne Quotes
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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