John Donne Quotes, Example Quotes, Scripture Quotes

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

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To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

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I find no abhorring in my appetite.

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A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.

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Friends are ourselves.

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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

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And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.

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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

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. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

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