As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNESo in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
More John Donne Quotes
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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 am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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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 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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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