"Our faults are not seen, But past us;……" — John Donne
"Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment."
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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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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
— Teresa of Avila
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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always…
— Richard Bach
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that…
— James Truslow Adams
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
— Samuel Beckett
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
— Samuel Beckett
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in…
— Kristen Bell
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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