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?
JOHN DONNEThere is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
More John Donne Quotes
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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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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Friends are ourselves.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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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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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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