John Donne Quotes

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

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Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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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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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

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And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

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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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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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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

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In heaven it is always autumn.

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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

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Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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