Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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