No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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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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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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There 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.
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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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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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