Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
More John Donne Quotes
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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