No man is an island unto himself.
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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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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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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