40 Quotations by John Donne
- 1. Affliction is a treasure, and scarcely is any man hath enough of it.
- 2. All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of t ...
- 3. All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to
- 4. And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and th ...
- 5. As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
- 6. As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends ...
- 7. At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conver ...
- 8. Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
- 9. Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must ...
- 10. But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
- 11. Death be not proud, though some have called thee
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- 12. Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
- 13. Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste w ...
- 14. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, s ...
- 15. I am two fools, I know, for loving, and saying so
- 16. I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
- 17. I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease
- 18. I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when t ...
- 19. I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare ...
- 20. Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy ...
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