I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNENo man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
More John Donne Quotes
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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No man is an island unto himself.
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