Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNEReason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
More John Donne Quotes
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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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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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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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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