John Donne Quotes
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John Donne Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
God is so omnipresent ... God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
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.
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
If that be simply perfectest
Which can by no way be expresst
But negatives, my love is so.
To All, which all love, I say no.
Negative Love
Which can by no way be expresst
But negatives, my love is so.
To All, which all love, I say no.
Negative Love
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.
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick.
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat,
And when he hath the kernel eat,
Who doth not fling away the shell?
And when he hath the kernel eat,
Who doth not fling away the shell?
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.