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John Donne Inspirational Quotes (143)

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God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.
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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
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Tis true, 'tis day what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.
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No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
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This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more Death, thou shalt die.
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Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Love is a growing, or full constant light And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
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Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
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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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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned alas why should I be?
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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
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We love and understand talent we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.
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