John Donne Quotes, Pain Quotes

Sleep is pain's easiest salve

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

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Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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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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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

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And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

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Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

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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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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

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And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

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The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

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We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

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And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

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

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