"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her……" — John Donne
"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity"
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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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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a…
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Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of…
— Roseanne Barr
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own…
— Bruce Barton
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
— William Blake
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
— Phillips Brooks
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his…
— Samuel Butler
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Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity…
— Alan Cohen
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Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who…
— J. Reuben Clark
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Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my…
— Pindar
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In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had…
— Lee Strobel
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