"To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at……" — John Donne
"To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become."
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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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More Banishment Quotes
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is…
— Teresa of Avila
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to…
— James A. Baldwin
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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from…
— Henry Beston
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Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of…
— Euripides
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My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they…
— Roger Rosenblatt
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems…
— Abraham Lincoln
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There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from…
— Hannah Arendt
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If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what…
— Pope John Paul II
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Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation…
— Germaine Greer
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In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of…
— John Quincy Adams
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