I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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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