Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNEPleasure is none, if not diversified.
More John Donne Quotes
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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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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