John Donne quotes - page 2

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 feigned deaths to die. (John Donne)
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love. View quote
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Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. View quote
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Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee. View quote
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Death is an ascension to a better library. View quote
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. View quote
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be. View quote
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No man is an island, entire of itself. View quote
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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. View quote
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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. View quote
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Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together. (John Donne)
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet? View quote
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Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, To taste whole joys. View quote
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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. View quote
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What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God? View quote
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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. View quote
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All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. View quote
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Though Truth and Falsehood be Near twins, yet Truth a little elder is. View quote
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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep. View quote
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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. View quote
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Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons. (John Donne)
If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. View quote
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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? View quote
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. View quote
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Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone. View quote
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