John Donne Quotes, War Quotes, Hieroglyphics Quotes

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

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We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

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Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

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That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

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Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

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Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

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Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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Kind pity chokes my spleen.

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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

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Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

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

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.

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