John Donne Quotes, Life Quotes, Sleep Quotes

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

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Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

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

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No man is an island unto himself.

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The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

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All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

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

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The day breaks not, it is my heart.

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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.

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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve

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Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

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To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic.

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

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