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• To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

  John Donne

  Graves, Feels, Humans

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• Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

  John Donne

  Infatuation, Take Me, Chaste

  'Holy Sonnets' (after 1609) no. 10 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

  John Donne

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  John Donne, David Colclough (2013). “The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Volume 3: Sermons Preached at the Court of Charles I”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

  John Donne

  Soul, Doe, Firsts

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford”, p.319

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• All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

  John Donne

  Mercy, All Time, All Occasions

  1624 Sermons,'Christmas Day, 1624'.

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• Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

  John Donne

  Time, Art, Philosophy

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

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• How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

  John Donne

  Love Is, Long, Great Love

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

  John Donne

  Two, Soul, Gold

  c.1595-1605 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

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• Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

  John Donne

  Soul, Poor, Perplexed

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 25 January 1628/9

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• Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

  John Donne

  Death, Men, Birth

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.240

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• Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

  John Donne

  Men, Whispering, Cry

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.358, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

  John Donne

  Love, Death, Self

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Song: Sweetest love, I do not go'

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• God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

  John Donne

  Atheist, Men, Thinking

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.141, Paulist Press

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• Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.

  John Donne

  Time, Spring, Shadow

  1624 Sermons,'Christmas Day, 1624'.

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• To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

  John Donne

  Writing, Lust, Rage

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

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• The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

  John Donne

  Christian, Anger, Sun

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218

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• Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Suth wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I began.

  John Donne

  Running, Moving, Home

  c.1595-1605 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

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• Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

  John Donne

  Creativity, Creation, Poetry Is

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.498

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• Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

  John Donne

  Prayer, Memories, Eye

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• 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

  Family, Doors, Differences

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• 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

  Men, Dust, Ambitious

  John Donne (2010). “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

  John Donne

  Death, Sheets, Intricate

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.468

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• Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.

  John Donne

  Today, Sun

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil
  All offices of death, except to kill.

  John Donne

  Pain, Sleep, Office

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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• Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

  John Donne

  Thinking, Poor, True You

  John Donne, “The Indifferent”

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