"And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an…" — John Donne
"And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night."
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223 Quotes by John Donne
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals…
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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church…
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female…
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
— Richard Bach
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
— Francis Bacon
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between…
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just…
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
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