"I observe the physician with the same diligence……" — John Donne
"I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease."
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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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More Diligence Quotes
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you…
— Julie Benz
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
— Samuel Johnson
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No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a…
— Nelson Mandela
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The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we…
— John Owen
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly…
— William James
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When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way,…
— Laozi
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To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended…
— Samuel Johnson
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If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it…
— Nikola Tesla
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