Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNEDespair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
More John Donne Quotes
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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