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• And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

  John Donne

  Fear, Sight, Sea

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.227, Harvard University Press

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• True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

  John Donne

  True Joy, Heaven, Soul

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.80

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• Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

  John Donne

  Courage, Despair, Cowardice

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• But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

  John Donne

  Love, Color, Clothes

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.9, Lulu.com

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

  John Donne

  War, Justice, Age

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

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• When I died last, and, Dear, I die
  As often as from thee I go
  Though it be but an hour ago,
  And lovers' hours be full eternity.

  John Donne

  Love, Retirement, Farewell

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Legacy'

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

  John Donne

  Joy, Serenity, Heaven

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

  John Donne

  Love, Sake, Tongue

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Canonization'

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• Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

  John Donne

  Example, Scripture, Commentary

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• Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

  John Donne

  Solitude, Hell, Torment

  Awakenings

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• God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

  John Donne

  Angel, Stones, Fairy

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons”, p.137

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• In heaven it is always autumn.

  John Donne

  Autumn, Heaven

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.356, Oxford University Press, USA

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• For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

  John Donne

  Educational, Philosophy, Sight

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.352, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

  John Donne

  Men, Guilt, Shame

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

  John Donne

  Life, Critical, Courses

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.291

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• If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

  John Donne

  Time, Long, Eternity

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.7, Paulist Press

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• Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

  John Donne

  Wicked

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I am a little world made cunningly.

  John Donne

  World, Littles, Made

  'Holy Sonnets' (after 1609) no. 15 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

  John Donne

  Elephants, Masterpiece, Great Things

  'The Progress of the Soul' (1601) st. 39

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• Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

  John Donne

  Men, Doe, Pieces

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• Death, thou shalt die.

  John Donne

  Dies

  Holy Sonnets no. 6 (1609)

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• The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

  John Donne

  Distance, Progress, Degrees

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.30

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• Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

  John Donne

  Love, Inward, Declaration

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons”, p.258

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• 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

  God, Christian, Prayer

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

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• Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

  John Donne

  Sex, Hands, Roving

  c.1595 Elegies, no.19,'To His Mistress Going to Bed'.

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