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Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;
To sleep, or run wrong, is. — John Donne
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
— John Donne
Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
— John Donne
Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
— 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
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
— John Donne
I think it mercy if Thou wilt forget.
— John Donne
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love
— John Donne
Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.
— Elena Delle Donne
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
— 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
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
— John Donne
Let not thy divining heartForethink me any ill;
Destiny may take thy part,
And may thy fears fulfill. — John Donne
Spend time with your family and try to spend time doing things that you enjoy doing other than basketball.
— Elena Delle Donne
Kind pity chokes my spleen.
— John Donne
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse. — John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself.
— John Donne
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
— John Donne
Great sorrows cannot speak.
— John Donne
I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors
— Raymond Chandler
What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.
— Cleanth Brooks
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
— John Donne
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
— John Donne
Tessa reached for the words ... You know, in that essay of Donne's, what he says ... about how no man is an island. Everything you do touches others.
— Cassandra Clare
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. ~John Donne
— Kristen Pierce
Other men's crosses are not my crosses.
— John Donne
My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
— John Donne
I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and achieve whatever they did.
— Elena Delle Donne
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
— John Donne
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
— John Donne
The day breaks not, it is my heart.
— John Donne
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
— John Donne
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
— John Donne
And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.
— Ted Hughes
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
— John Donne
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
— John Donne
As soon as there was two there was pride.
— John Donne
Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
— John Donne
Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
— John Donne
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
— John Donne
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
— John Donne
I am a little world made cunningly.
— John Donne
But come bad chanceAnd wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length
It selfe o'er us to advance. — John Donne
Friends are ourselves.
— John Donne
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
— 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
And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
— John Donne
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
— John Donne
Sleep is pain's easiest salve
— John Donne
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
— John Donne
