If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNEAs God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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