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• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

  John Donne

  Greatness, Men, World

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• My love though silly is more brave.

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  Silly, Brave

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

  John Donne

  Love, Peace, Ashes

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

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  Night, Scapes, Everlasting

  'A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's last going into Germany' (1619)

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• Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

  John Donne

  Save Nature

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

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  Past, Punishment, Faults

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.561

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• 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.

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  Dating, Church, Noble

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• 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.

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  Men, Soul, Virtuous

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning'

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• I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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  Doors, Noise, Whining

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

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• Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

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  Littles, Twins, Truth And Falsehood

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.411

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• Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

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  Men, Affliction, Treasure

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.575

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• But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

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  Sleep, Thinking

  John Donne (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

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  Angel, Men, Understanding

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.455

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• True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

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  Love, Time, Writing

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

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  Life, Women, Swear

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Men, Differences

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

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• I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

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  Love, Country, Wonder

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

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• I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

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  Running, Time, Fire

  c.1595 Elegies, no.12,'His Parting from Her'.

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• Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

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  Two, Space, Done

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.370

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• At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

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  War, Angel, Blow

  John Donne, John Daniel Thieme (2014). “John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme”, p.23, Vicarage Hill Press

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• This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.

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  Love, Moving, Soul

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• 'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.

  John Donne

  Years, Midnight

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day'

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• 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.

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  Flower, Men, Dust

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• Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

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  Art, Hate, Women

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.92, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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  Death, Exercise, Swimming

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.321

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