Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEO Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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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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God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNE