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.
JOHN DONNEFriends are ourselves.
More John Donne Quotes
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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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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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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