We give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNELicence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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True 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.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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