Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
JOHN DONNENature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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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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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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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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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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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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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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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