John Donne Quotes, Soul Quotes, Doe Quotes

In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

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Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.

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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

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The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

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

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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

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What if this present were the world's last night?

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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

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Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

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I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

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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 is an ascension to a better library.

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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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

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

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

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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

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