Death is an ascension to a better library.
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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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Friends are ourselves.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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