John Donne Quotes, Friday Quotes, Morning Quotes

The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

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

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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 John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

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Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

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

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

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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

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

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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

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

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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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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I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

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How imperfect is all our knowledge!

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