All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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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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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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