26 Quotes by John Donne about Men
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
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Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
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In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.
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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
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