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.
JOHN DONNEFestive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
More John Donne Quotes
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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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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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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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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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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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.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Friends are ourselves.
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