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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. — John Donne

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

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man. — John Donne

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. — 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. — John Donne

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good. — John Donne

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine. — John Donne

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be. — John Donne

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be. — John Donne

Let not thy divining heart
Forethink me any ill;
Destiny may take thy part,
And may thy fears fulfill. — John Donne

How imperfect is all our knowledge! — John Donne

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. — John Donne

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. — John Donne

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. — John Donne

It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; — John Donne

Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps. — John Donne

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols. — John Donne

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery. — John Donne

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. — John Donne

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

To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love. — John Donne

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

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. — John Donne

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best. — John Donne

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

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. — Timothy Noah

Who are a little wise the best fools be. — John Donne

Friends are ourselves. — John Donne

But come bad chance
And wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length
It selfe o'er us to advance. — John Donne

I am a little world made cunningly. — John Donne

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. — John Donne

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred. — John Donne

But, O alas! so long, so far,
Our bodies why do we forbear? — John Donne

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser. — John Donne

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself. — John Donne

Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow. — John Donne

As soon as there was two there was pride. — John Donne

Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is. — John Donne

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space. — John Donne

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne. — Ted Hughes

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. — John Donne