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First Quotes by John Donne
- All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a…
- God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their…
- In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf,…
- Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.
- In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
- Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last,…
- A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied.…
- Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
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- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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