Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNEWithout outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
More John Donne Quotes
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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