How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNENature hath no goal though she hath law.
More John Donne Quotes
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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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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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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