As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNEThy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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