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.
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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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