John Donne Quotes

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne

Piece, Island, Continent

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.
John Donne

Death, Involved, Mankind

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne

Motivational, Jail, Thy

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne

Love, Souls, Letters

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne

Beauty, Love, Soon

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
John Donne

God, Eyes, Before

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne

Art, Death, Die

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
John Donne

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne

Beauty, Spring, Face

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne

Joy, Hell, Serenity

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
John Donne

Faith, Soul, Reason

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
John Donne

Since, Save, Bury

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
John Donne

Love, God, Tongue

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
John Donne

Poetry, Saying, Two

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
John Donne

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John Donne

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
John Donne

Love, Time, Days

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne

Book, Language, Torn

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.
John Donne

Fire, Lost, Doubt

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
John Donne

Men, Sad, Friends

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne

Fool, Busy, Through

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
John Donne

Worse, Wicked, Indiscreet

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
John Donne

Enough, Treasure, Affliction

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
John Donne

Art, Within, Passionate

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.
John Donne

Within, Quiet, Known

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: 1572

Died: March 31, 1631

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