God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
JOHN DONNEPoor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
More John Donne Quotes
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Friends are ourselves.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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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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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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