Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Friends are ourselves.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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.
JOHN DONNE