John Donne Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

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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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...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.

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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

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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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Kind pity chokes my spleen.

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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

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

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Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.

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ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

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

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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

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