I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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