John Donne Quotes

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

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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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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

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No man is an island unto himself.

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

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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

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Death, thou shalt die.

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God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

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

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

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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

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My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

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

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I find no abhorring in my appetite.

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To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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