"If they be two, they are two so……" — John Donne
"If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do."
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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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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars,…
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My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
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I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just…
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
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If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
— Steve Chabot
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
— William Ellery Channing
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their…
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
— George H. W. Bush
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would…
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