For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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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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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 count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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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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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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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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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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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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