Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNEI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
More John Donne Quotes
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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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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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNE