"Death is an ascension to a better library." — John Donne
"Death is an ascension to a better library."
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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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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within.…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are…
— Saint Augustine
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There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable,…
— Ernest K. Gann
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Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the…
— John Bunyan
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I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without…
— Unknown Author
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COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and…
— Lancelot Andrewes
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Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn’t rooted in the good news of the life,…
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
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Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need…
— Reid Hoffman
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There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.
— Stuart Wilde
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