John Donne Quotes, Suffering Quotes

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

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Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

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

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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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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

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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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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

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We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

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This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

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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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There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

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The day breaks not, it is my heart.

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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