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• And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

  John Donne

  Love, Forget, Dare

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.254

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• Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

  John Donne

  Happiness, Joy, Enjoyment

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• What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

  John Donne

  Marriage, Sight, Tickling

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.320, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

  John Donne

  Moving, Two, Feet

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.555

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• Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

  John Donne

  Humility, Night, Men

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.149

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• Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

  John Donne

  Love, Nature, Taught

  John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.26, Litres

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• Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

  John Donne

  Men, Doubt, Phrases

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.462

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• A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.

  John Donne

  Good Night, Valentine, Clothes

  John Donne (1949). “The complete poems of John Donne”

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• On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will
  Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

  John Donne

  Truth, Hills, Steep

  John Donne, William Blake (1946). “The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne: & the Complete Poetry of William Blake”

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• O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

  John Donne

  Fall, Power, Men

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

  John Donne

  Hair, Heaven, Soul

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Funeral'

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• That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

  John Donne

  Thinking, Debt, Remember

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.175, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

  John Donne

  Miracle, Needs, World

  John Donne (2000). “The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.769, Modern Library

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• Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

  John Donne

  Lust, Disease, Thee

  John Donne (2000). “The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.124, Modern Library

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• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

  John Donne

  Angel, Whining, Chamber

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

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

  John Donne

  Small Steps, Steps, Tomorrow

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• It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

  John Donne

  Men, World, Littles

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.257, Paulist Press

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• Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

  John Donne

  Love, Angel, Flames

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Air and Angels'

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• Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

  John Donne

  Children, Yesterday, Sorrow

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whoever loves, if he do not propose
  The right true end of love, he's one that goes
  To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

  John Donne

  Love, Sea, Sick

  'Elegies' 'Love's Progress' (1599-1601)

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• I find no abhorring in my appetite.

  John Donne

  Appetite

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.540

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• All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

  John Donne

  War, Law, Soul

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 4 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• Kind pity chokes my spleen.

  John Donne

  Kind, Pity, Choke

  1594-5 Satires, no.3.

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• To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

  John Donne

  Lying, Judging, Answers

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.364

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• Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

  John Donne

  Heart, Mad, May

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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