I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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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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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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