Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNEDoth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
More John Donne Quotes
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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I am a little world made cunningly.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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