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John Donne Inspirational Quotes (143)

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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure Time shall not lose our passages.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.
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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
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What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?
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My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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My love though silly is more brave.
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Lust-bred diseases rot thee.
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It is too little to call man a little world Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
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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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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
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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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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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