John Donne Quotes, Soul Quotes, Progress Quotes

I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

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

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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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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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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

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Other men's crosses are not my crosses.

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Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

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Friends are ourselves.

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I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

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Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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