As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNEThe rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
More John Donne Quotes
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
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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 built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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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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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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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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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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