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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
John Donne
If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
John Donne
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
John Donne
Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
John Donne
Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
John Donne
Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.
John Donne
My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
John Donne
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
John Donne
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
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne
And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.
John Donne
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
John Donne
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
John Donne
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
John Donne
. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.
John Donne
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
John Donne
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
John Donne
Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
John Donne
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
John Donne
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
John Donne