John Donne Quotes

I find no abhorring in my appetite.

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There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

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As soon as there was two there was pride.

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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

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Death is an ascension to a better library.

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

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In heaven it is always autumn.

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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.

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Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

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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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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

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Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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