John Donne Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Calling Quotes

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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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

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In heaven it is always autumn.

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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

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There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

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Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

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I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

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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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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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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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We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

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How imperfect is all our knowledge!

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Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

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