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John Donne Quotes

Type: Poet Quotes Category: British Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 1572 Date of Death: March 31, 1631 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: John Donne Related Authors: Samuel Butler Lord Byron George Herbert Thom Gunn Helen Dunmore Lascelles Abercrombie James Montgomery

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. John Donne And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. John Donne Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. John Donne 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 As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no. John Donne Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? John Donne But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner. John Donne But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space. John Donne Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. John Donne For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. John Donne God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. John Donne 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 Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. John Donne I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. John Donne I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. John Donne Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. John Donne More than kisses, letters mingle souls. John Donne Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. John Donne No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. John Donne No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. John Donne Pleasure is none, if not diversified. John Donne Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. John Donne Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. John Donne The day breaks not, it is my heart. John Donne When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. John Donne Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. John Donne

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