Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNEThy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
More John Donne Quotes
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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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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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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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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.
JOHN DONNE