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.
JOHN DONNEKeep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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