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.
JOHN DONNETrue joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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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