John Donne Quotes, Exercise Quotes, Air Quotes

We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Air Quotes

That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Jail Quotes

Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Infatuation Quotes , Take Me Quotes

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Believe Quotes , Doctrine Quotes

The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Quotes , Sex Quotes

In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Soul Quotes , Doe Quotes

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Art Quotes , Men Quotes

Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Joy Quotes

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Night Quotes , Scapes Quotes

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Men Quotes , Ants Quotes

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Truth Quotes , Honesty Quotes

All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Mercy Quotes , All Time Quotes

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Heart Quotes , Blow Quotes

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Quotes , Nature Quotes

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Solitude Quotes , Hell Quotes

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Memories Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Quotes , Running Quotes