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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.
— John Donne
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
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
Kind pity chokes my spleen.
— John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself.
— John Donne
The day breaks not, it is my heart.
— John Donne
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse. — John Donne
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
— John Donne
Thou, sun, art half as happy as we.
— John Donne
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
— John Donne
Other men's crosses are not my crosses.
— John Donne
My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
— John Donne
Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
— John Donne
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
— John Donne
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
— John Donne
Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
— 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
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
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
Great sorrows cannot speak.
— John Donne
And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
— John Donne
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
— 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
