"If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose……" — John Donne
"If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?"
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John Donne
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223 Quotes by John Donne
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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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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
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