Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNENo man is an island unto himself.
More John Donne Quotes
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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