John Donne Quotes, Art Quotes, Science Quotes

Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.

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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

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Kind pity chokes my spleen.

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

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Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

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When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.

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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.

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Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

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The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

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And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

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...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.

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My love though silly is more brave.

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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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