For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNEThere is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
More John Donne Quotes
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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