I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNEBe more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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