How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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In 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.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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