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• Death is an ascension to a better library.

  John Donne

  Library, Ascension

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• If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

  John Donne

  Dream, Thee, Ifs

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.82, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sleep is pain's easiest salve

  John Donne

  Pain, Sleep

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.51, Oxford University Press, USA

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• . . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

  John Donne

  Life, Change, Joy

  John Donne (2012). “John Donne”, p.39, Faber & Faber

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• I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

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  Doing Good, Lost, Communion

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• Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

  John Donne

  Men, Ants, Superiority

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.491

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• So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

  John Donne

  Angel, Flames, Voice

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Air and Angels'

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• A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

  John Donne

  Cat, Men, Lions

  John Donne (2011). “John Donne's Devotions”, p.82, CCEL

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• I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

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  Love, Two, Fool

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Triple Fool'

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• Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

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  Love, Cute, Anniversary

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Bait'

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• The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

  John Donne

  Friday, Morning, Passion

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• I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

  John Donne

  Love, Wonder, Wedding Poetry

  Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

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

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  Art, Men, Passionate

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

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  Death, Book, Men

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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

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  Love, Time, Rags

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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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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  Death, Peace, Grief

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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  Sleep, Calling, May

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• How imperfect is all our knowledge!

  John Donne

  Imperfect

  1626 Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

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• Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

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  Love, Sweet, Art

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.115, Delphi Classics

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• Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

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  Love Is, Sin, Let Me

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• To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

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  Rejection, Body

  John Donne, Paul M. Oliver (2002). “John Donne: Selected Letters”, p.35, Psychology Press

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• How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

  John Donne

  Attitude, Positive Attitude, Changed

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• Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

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  Faith, Hands, Soul

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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  Love, Book, Soul

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.123, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

  John Donne

  Dream, Joy, Ifs

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Dream' ('Image of her whom I love')

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