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John Donne Inspirational Quotes (143)

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When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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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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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.
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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
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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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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent to a competent I must answer.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
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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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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.
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Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.
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The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
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ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
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Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
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