"Between these two, the denying of sins, which……" — John Donne
"Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!"
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John Donne
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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 Bragging Quotes
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It's not bragging if you can back it up.
— Muhammad Ali
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Confession without repentance is just bragging.
— Unknown Author
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Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.
— Richard Crashaw
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People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never…
— E. W. Howe
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.
— Isaac Asimov
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I got a nice jumper on me, and i'm not just bragging.
— Bow Wow
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Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
— Ellen G. White
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I don't waste time putting money down, I just go straight to who got it and buy it in cash.…
— Drake
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