For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNEAnd what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
More John Donne Quotes
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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