John Donne Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Poor Quotes

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

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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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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

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In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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

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That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

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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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What if this present were the world's last night?

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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Death is an ascension to a better library.

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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

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