I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNESleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
More John Donne Quotes
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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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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What if this present were the world’s last night?
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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