Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNEA man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
More John Donne Quotes
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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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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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 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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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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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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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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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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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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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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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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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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