John Donne Quotes, Fall Quotes, Expression Quotes

When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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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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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

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And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

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Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

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When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.

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There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

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Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

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Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.

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