John Donne Quotes

Friends are ourselves.

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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

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

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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.

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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.

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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

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We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

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

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And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

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