Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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 thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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