How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNEI shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
More John Donne Quotes
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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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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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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