As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
JOHN DONNEAny 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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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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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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