God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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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.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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