I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
JOHN DONNEDeath 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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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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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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