Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNENo man is an island unto himself.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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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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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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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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As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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