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Us Quotes by John Donne
- We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.
- Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect…
- Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
- So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
- If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas;…
- And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And…
- Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest,…
- That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else…
- Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie…
- 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…
- This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not…
- The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and…
- Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us…
- Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
- O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
- Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.
- Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
- 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,…
- Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
- All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle