Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNENothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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