Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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