Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEReason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
More John Donne Quotes
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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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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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 am a little world made cunningly.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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.
JOHN DONNE