As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNEWhat if this present were the world’s last night?
More John Donne Quotes
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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