Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNEPoetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
More John Donne Quotes
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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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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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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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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