John Donne Quotes, Death Quotes, Sleep Quotes

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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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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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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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

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

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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

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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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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

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I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

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If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

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Friends are ourselves.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

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. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

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