Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
JOHN DONNEJohn Donne Quotes
Walk of life:English poet
Born:22 January 1572, London, UK
Died:31 March 1631, London, UK
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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.
JOHN DONNE
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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.
JOHN DONNE
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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.
JOHN DONNE
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
JOHN DONNE
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNE
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
JOHN DONNE
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
JOHN DONNE
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNE
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNE
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
JOHN DONNE