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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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.

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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

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

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On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

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The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

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Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

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

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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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Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

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Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

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