I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNEIf 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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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 is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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