I am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNEPoor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
More John Donne Quotes
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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 great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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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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