When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNEReason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
More John Donne Quotes
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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