Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNEGod 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.
More John Donne Quotes
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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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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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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How imperfect is all our knowledge!
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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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No man is an island unto himself.
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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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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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