No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNEHow much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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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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