O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
JOHN DONNEA man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
More John Donne Quotes
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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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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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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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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