John Donne Quotes, Spirit Quotes, Melancholy Quotes

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

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Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.

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

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

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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

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

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Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

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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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I find no abhorring in my appetite.

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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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As soon as there was two there was pride.

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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

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God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

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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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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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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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