John Donne Quotes
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Hee drinkes misery, and he tastes happinesse; he mowes misery, and he gleanes happinesse; he journeys in misery, he does but walke in happinesse.
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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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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
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And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
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She, and comparisons are odious.