Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 1
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For reason, much too strong for fantasy, / Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet / My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant - the only harmless great thing. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
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 English More John Donne Quotes 0
Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines and silver hooks. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
Yet call not this long life; but think that I Am, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die? John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
But O alas, so long, so far / Our bodies why do we forbear? / They're ours, though they're not we, we are / The intelligences, they the sphere. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night. John Donne English More John Donne Quotes 0
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. John Donne British Poet More John Donne Quotes 0
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. John Donne British Poet More John Donne Quotes 0
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne British Poet More John Donne Quotes 0
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 British Poet More John Donne Quotes 0
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. John Donne British Poet More John Donne Quotes 0