"The flea, though he kill none, he does…" — John Donne
"The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can."
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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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