John Donne Quotes, God Quotes, Eye Quotes

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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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.

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Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

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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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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

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we give each other a smile with a future in it

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve

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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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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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

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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

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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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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

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Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

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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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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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