In heaven it is always autumn.
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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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 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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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 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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