How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNEThen love is sin, and let me sinful be.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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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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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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