John Donne Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Angel Quotes

Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.

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Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

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For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

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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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Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

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

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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

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Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

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This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.

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I am a little world made cunningly.

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