I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNEFestive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
More John Donne Quotes
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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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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