As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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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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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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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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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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