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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 way
To stand inquiring right, is not to stray;
To sleep, or run wrong, is. — John Donne
To stand inquiring right, is not to stray;
To sleep, or run wrong, is. — 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
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
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
At one blood labors to beget,
Spirits as like as it can,
Because such figures need to knit,
that subtle knot which makes us man. — John Donne
Spirits as like as it can,
Because such figures need to knit,
that subtle knot which makes us man. — John Donne
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
— John Donne
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
— 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
I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
— 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 heart
Forethink me any ill;
Destiny may take thy part,
And may thy fears fulfill. — John Donne
Forethink 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
When I died last, and, Dear, I die
As often as from thee I go
Though it be but an hour ago,
And lovers' hours be full eternity. — John Donne
As often as from thee I go
Though it be but an hour ago,
And lovers' hours be full eternity. — John Donne
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse. — John Donne
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse. — John Donne
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
— 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
There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.
— 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
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
— John Donne
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
— John Donne
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. — John Donne
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick. — John Donne
Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
— John Donne
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
— John Donne
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
— 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
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
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 chance
And wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length
It selfe o'er us to advance. — John Donne
And 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
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
— John Donne
Great sorrows cannot speak.
— John Donne
Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Therefore, ask not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. - John Donne
— Meg Cabot
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