Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNEFull nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
More John Donne Quotes
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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