"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy……" — John Donne
"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."
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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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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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We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for…
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More Damp Quotes
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
— Ian Anderson
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It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the…
— Charles Darwin
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We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a…
— Phyllis Diller
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Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy,…
— James Russell Lowell
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her…
— Naomi Ragen
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Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.
— Mary Szybist
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If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained…
— Ciaran Carson
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I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford…
— Vera Brittain
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I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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