Quote by John Donne
Be your own palace, or the world is your jail. - John Donne

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail. – John Donne

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. – John Donne

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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. – John Donne

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To be ones own master is to be the slave of self. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon ones self. – John Gay

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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. – Thomas Aquinas

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