"Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot…" — John Donne
"Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so."
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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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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 Enjoyment Quotes
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above…
— Honore de Balzac
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
— Joseph Addison
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
— Joseph Addison
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment…
— Walter Benjamin
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Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and…
— Daniel Boone
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The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man.…
— Damon Albarn
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The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act…
— William Jennings Bryan
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— Edmund Burke
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
— Fanny Burney
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