Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNEGod 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Friends are ourselves.
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