Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNEThere is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
More John Donne Quotes
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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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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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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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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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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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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