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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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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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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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