John Donne Quotes, Time Quotes, Long Quotes

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

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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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The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

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This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

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I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

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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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That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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we give each other a smile with a future in it

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Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

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If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

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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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Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

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