Quote

Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

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
Tomorrow
Steps
Small
Start
Never
Reached
Eternity
Reach

More quotes by John Donne

Image
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne
Image
God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.
John Donne
Image
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
Image
How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.
John Donne
Image
we give each other a smile with a future in it
John Donne
Image
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
John Donne
Image
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.
John Donne
Image
Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.
John Donne
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
John Donne
Image
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
John Donne
Image
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.
John Donne
Image
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
John Donne
Image
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne
Image
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
John Donne
Image
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne
Image
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John Donne
Image
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
John Donne
Image
And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.
John Donne