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 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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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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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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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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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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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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