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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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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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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Whoever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

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

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Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

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

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Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

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There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

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But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

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I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

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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.

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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

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The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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