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I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid


John Donne

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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.
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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