Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNEAs 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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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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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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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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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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 observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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