Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
More John Donne Quotes
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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 observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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