I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNEA man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
More John Donne Quotes
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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