John Donne Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Suffering Quotes

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

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Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

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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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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

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From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

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God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

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Great sorrows cannot speak.

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

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

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But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

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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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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

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