"Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou…" — John Donne
"Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
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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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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so…
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It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say:…
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If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
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Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that…
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I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all…
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The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore…
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Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.
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Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou…
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