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.
JOHN DONNESo in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
More John Donne Quotes
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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