John Donne Quotes
The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.
John Donne
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Though Truth and Falsehood be Near twins, yet Truth a little elder is.
John Donne
The Sestos and Abydos of her breasts Not of two lovers, but two loves the nests.
John Donne
Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke.
John Donne
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
John Donne
Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.
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O my America! my new-found land.
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Who ever 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.
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I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite.
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What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?
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How deepe do we dig, and for how coarse gold?
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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Absence, hear thou my protestation Against thy strength, Distance, and length; Do what thou canst for alteration
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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.
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Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, To taste whole joys.
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The day breaks not, it is my heart.
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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
