As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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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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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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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