John Donne Quotes, Moving Quotes, Two Quotes

If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

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Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

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

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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

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Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

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

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Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

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

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

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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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We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

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That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

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