Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNELicence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
More John Donne Quotes
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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