John Donne Quotes
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John Donne Quotes
- Name:
- John Donne
- Type:
- Poet
- Nationality:
- British
- Birth year:
- 1572
- 1
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. John Donne
- 2
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
- 3
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
- 4
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. John Donne
- 5
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
- 6
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
- 7
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. John Donne
- 8
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
- 9
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner. John Donne
- 10
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space. John Donne
- 11
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. John Donne
- 12
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. John Donne
- 13
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. John Donne
- 14
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. John Donne
- 15
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. John Donne
- 16
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. John Donne
- 17
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne
- 18
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. John Donne
- 19
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. John Donne
- 20
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. John Donne
- 21
Pleasure is none, if not diversified. John Donne
- 22
Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. John Donne
- 23
The day breaks not, it is my heart. John Donne
- 24
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. John Donne
- 25
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. John Donne