40 Quotations by John Donne
- 21. Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of t ...
- 22. Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write three ...
- 23. Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- 24. Love was as subtly caught as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is har ...
- 25. Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
- 26. Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is ...
- 27. Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a prepar ...
- 28. More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
- 29. No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; i ...
- 30. One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
- 31. Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
- 32. Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
- 33. Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, ex ...
- 34. This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.
- 35. To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
- 36. We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are ...
- 37. What if this present were the world's last night?
- 38. When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lover ...
- 39. When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
- 40. Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
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