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John Donne Quotes
Best Quotes by John Donne (Top 10)
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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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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.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying so.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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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.
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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More John Donne Quotes
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...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.
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Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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