I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
JOHN DONNEOur two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
More John Donne Quotes
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Friends are ourselves.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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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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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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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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