Quote

We love and understand talent we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

John Donne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
Lawyer
Pastor
Poet
Politician
Songwriter
Translator
Writer
London
England
Very Rev. John Donne
World
Genius
Talent
Waiting
Within
Exceptional
Wish
Gifted
Understand
Catch
Must
Wait
Love
Truly

More quotes by John Donne

Image
Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
John Donne
Image
ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
John Donne
Image
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.
John Donne
Image
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
John Donne
Image
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
John Donne
Image
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
John Donne
Image
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
John Donne
Image
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
John Donne
Image
To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic.
John Donne
Image
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
John Donne
Image
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
John Donne
Image
Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
John Donne
Image
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
Image
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
John Donne
Image
Kind pity chokes my spleen.
John Donne
Image
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John Donne
Image
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
John Donne
Image
That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.
John Donne
Image
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more Death, thou shalt die.
John Donne
Image
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
John Donne