John Donne Quotes - Page 9

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• That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

  John Donne

  Soul

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.345, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

  John Donne

  Running, Sleep, Doubt

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

  John Donne

  God, Gnats, Creeps

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.415

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• Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

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  Love, Lying, Bed

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.213

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• Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

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  Sickness, Wells, Knows

  John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.19, Litres

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• We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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  Mother, Wall, Jail

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.280, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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  Life And Death, Prison Life, Going Out

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.500

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• If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

  John Donne

  Death, Envy, Tree

  Holy Sonnets no. 5 (published 1633)

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• But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

  John Donne

  Executioners, Sabotage, My Own

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• As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

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  War, Hieroglyphics, Misery

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.236

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• There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

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  Health, Physicians, Neutrality

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.81

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• So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

  John Donne

  Kissing, Break Off, Two

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.316

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• When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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  Fall, Expression, Hands

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.386

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• Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

  John Donne

  Moving, Men, Soul

  'Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward', published 1635.

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• He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

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  God, Eye, Men

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

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• Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

  John Donne

  Life, Sleep, Men

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• That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

  John Donne

  Lying, Men, Soul

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Ecstasy'

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• My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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  Love, Heart, Eye

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

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• A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

  John Donne

  Art, Unique, Mathematics

  "The science of poetry, the poetry of science" by Ruth Padel, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

  John Donne

  Book, Men, World

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.484

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• I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

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  Honesty, Integrity, Yield

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• Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call countryants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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  Running, Time, Kings

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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• Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

  John Donne

  Men, Heaven

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA

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• That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

  John Donne

  Levels, Bling, Ugly

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• The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

  John Donne

  Love, Heaven, Should

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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