"If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if……" — John Donne
"If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser."
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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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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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We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for…
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There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because…
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His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five…
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For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if…
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Men blaspheme what they do not know.
— Blaise Pascal
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It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
— John Wycliffe
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The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the…
— Aleister Crowley
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Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme…
— Polycarp
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Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us…
— Martin Luther
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Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I…
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Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
— Daniel Pipes
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To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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