Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEO Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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