Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
JOHN DONNEIn 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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