Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNEFriends are ourselves.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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