As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
JOHN DONNE
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
More John Donne Quotes
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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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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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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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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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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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE