"What if this present were the world's last…" — John Donne
"What if this present were the world's last night?"
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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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank…
— Brooks Atkinson
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When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -…
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
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