Best Quotes by John Donne (Top 10)

  1. Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
  2. No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
  3. No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
  4. I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying so.
  5. More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
  6. 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.
  7. Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
  8. Death is an ascension to a better library.
  9. Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
  10. Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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