God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNEPleasure is none, if not diversified.
More John Donne Quotes
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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