As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. John Donne More Quotes by John Donne More Quotes From John Donne 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. John Donne true-you poor thinking As soon as there was two there was pride. John Donne pride two The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say. John Donne psalms suffering All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain. John Donne soul law war There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will. John Donne hook benefits sticks 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. John Donne heart fall thinking There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality. John Donne physicians neutrality health Great sorrows cannot speak. John Donne sorrow speak The day breaks not, it is my heart. John Donne my-heart break heart 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. John Donne sleep men life I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. John Donne health humorous funny 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. John Donne eye god men Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper. John Donne spirit-of-god melancholy spirit As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart. John Donne cheerful god-love heart Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. John Donne save-nature Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own. John Donne men heaven Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. John Donne sanctification humiliation Sleep is pain's easiest salve John Donne pain sleep 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. John Donne air exercise long Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps. John Donne small-steps tomorrow steps
