"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy…" — John Donne
"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."
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223 Quotes by John Donne
John Donne has 223 quotes on this site.
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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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More Jail Quotes
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I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.
— Sebastian Bach
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor…
— Foxy Brown
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
— Charles Bukowski
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
— Charles Bukowski
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Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts,…
— Nolan Bushnell
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil…
— Albert Camus
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
— Kurt Cobain
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You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers,…
— Tupac Shakur
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I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking…
— Tupac Shakur
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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
— Ambrose Bierce
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