Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNEI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
More John Donne Quotes
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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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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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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Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE