"Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time,……" — John Donne
"Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period."
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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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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
— Lord Acton
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
— William Barclay
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
— Henry Adams
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I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call…
— Drew Barrymore
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms…
— William Blake
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
— William Blake
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
— William Blake
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
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