John Donne Quotes, Heart Quotes, Cheerful Quotes

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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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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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

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

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God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

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

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Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

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

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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

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

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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

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Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

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