Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNELove’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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