"But I do nothing upon myself, and yet……" — John Donne
"But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner."
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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 Executioner Quotes
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one of 54 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
— Charles Baudelaire
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
— Omar N. Bradley
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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
— Marlon Brando
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level…
— Greg Norman
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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is…
— Thomas Browne
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The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
— Anne Boleyn
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Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what…
— Alexander Herzen
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Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Christianity is religion for the executioner.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Revenge proves it's own executioner.
— John Ford
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Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his…
— J M Coetzee
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