John Donne Quotes, Family Quotes, Doors Quotes

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

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

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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

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My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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

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Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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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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That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

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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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Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

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