John Donne Quotes

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

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To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

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Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

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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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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.

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Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

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And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men confess that this world's spent, When in the planets, and the firmament They seek so many new; then see that this Is crumbled out again to his atomies. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all relation: Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot.

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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

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