Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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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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Friends are ourselves.
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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