I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNESo in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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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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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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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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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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