Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
JOHN DONNEI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
More John Donne Quotes
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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In heaven it is always autumn.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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