I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNEHow imperfect is all our knowledge!
More John Donne Quotes
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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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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Friends are ourselves.
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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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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