"Send home my long strayed eyes to me,……" — John Donne
"Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee."
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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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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite,…
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This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of…
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And…
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look…
— Maeve Binchy
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I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions…
— William Wordsworth
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By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of…
— Charles Dance
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
— Adrienne Rich
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It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been…
— Kenneth Copeland
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I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled…
— Alfred Bunn
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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy…
— William Wordsworth
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Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified,…
— Grenville Kleiser
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In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age…
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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