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.
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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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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