Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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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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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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 we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE