I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNEFriends are ourselves.
More John Donne Quotes
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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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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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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