John Donne Quotes, Art Quotes, Science Quotes

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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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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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

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Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

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

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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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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

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Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

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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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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

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Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

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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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All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

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In heaven it is always autumn.

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