He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.


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JOHN DONNE
When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / A...
JOHN DONNE
On a round ball / A workman that hath copies by, can lay / An Europe, Africa and an Asia, / And quic...
JOHN DONNE
That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
JOHN DONNE
She, and comparisons are odious.
JOHN DONNE
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
JOHN DONNE
So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE
Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm / Nor question much / That subtle wreath of hair, which cro...
JOHN DONNE
By our first strange and fatal interview.
JOHN DONNE
Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none...
JOHN DONNE
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
JOHN DONNE
When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain.
JOHN DONNE
...but come bad chance
And wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length JOHN DONNE
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.
JOHN DONNE
For, thus friends absent speak.
JOHN DONNE
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
JOHN DONNE
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JOHN DONNE
My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...
DR. JOHN DONNE
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face; Young beauti...
DR. JOHN DONNE
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
DR. JOHN DONNE
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time,...
DR. JOHN DONNE
He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what that word did make it,...
DR. JOHN DONNE
We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distin...
DR. JOHN DONNE
When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than fak...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.
ELENA DELLE DONNE
I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything fr...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real c...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emo...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and a...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER