"Good is not good, unless A thousand it……" — John Donne
"Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness."
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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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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
— Francis Bacon
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
— Francis Bacon
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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
— George Chapman
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Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not…
— John Bunyan
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
— Thomas Brooks
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God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in…
— Thomas Brooks
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I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
— William Shakespeare
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Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in…
— Arthur Symons
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The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
— William Shakespeare
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Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
— William Shakespeare
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