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.
JOHN DONNEDespair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
More John Donne Quotes
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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