"Love is a growing, or full constant light;……" — John Donne
"Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night."
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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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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
— Lynda Barry
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.…
— Samuel Beckett
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by…
— Joseph Addison
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
— Michael Bloomberg
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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in…
— David Bohm
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
— Richard Brautigan
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Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
— Joyce Brothers
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That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.
— Luke Bryan
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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