John Donne Quotes, Love Quotes, Death Quotes

Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

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The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

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

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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...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.

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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

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When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

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

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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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

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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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We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

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. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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No man is an island unto himself.

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Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

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

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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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