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.
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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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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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 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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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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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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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