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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail - John Donne Quotes

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

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 Quotes

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.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified. - John Donne Quotes

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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 Quotes

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.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant - the only harmless great thing. - John Donne Quotes

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant - the only harmless great thing.

Licence my roving hands, and let them goBefore, behind, between, above, below. - John Donne Quotes

Licence my roving hands, and let them goBefore, behind, between, above, below.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time - John Donne Quotes

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time

Love

No man ever saw God and lived. And yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him, I shall never die. - John Donne Quotes

No man ever saw God and lived. And yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him, I shall never die.

Death

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 Quotes

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory

God

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 Quotes

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.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so. - John Donne Quotes

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so.

British Poet Love Poetry Quote of the Day

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee - John Donne Quotes

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die. - John Donne Quotes

Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.

On a round ball / A workman that hath copies by, can lay / An Europe, Africa and an Asia, / And quickly make that, which was nothing, All. - John Donne Quotes

On a round ball / A workman that hath copies by, can lay / An Europe, Africa and an Asia, / And quickly make that, which was nothing, All.

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid - John Donne Quotes

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

Brave

For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. - John Donne Quotes

For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only 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 itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind. - John Donne Quotes

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only 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 itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

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 Quotes

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.

British Poet Doubt

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery - John Donne Quotes

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

Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere,/ This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere. - John Donne Quotes

Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere,/ This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.

Art

By our first strange and fatal interview. - John Donne Quotes

By our first strange and fatal interview.

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 worshipped be - John Donne Quotes

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 worshipped be

Where can we find two better hemispheres/ Without sharp North, without declining West? - John Donne Quotes

Where can we find two better hemispheres/ Without sharp North, without declining West?

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. - John Donne Quotes

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

British Poet dispare

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak - John Donne Quotes

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak

Friends Or Friendship

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me - John Donne Quotes

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me

Art

Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it. - John Donne Quotes

Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it.

Money

When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / And lovers' hours be full eternity. - John Donne Quotes

When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / And lovers' hours be full eternity.

Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side. - John Donne Quotes

Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side.

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day. - John Donne Quotes

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day.

There is a hook in every benefit that sticks in his jaws that takes the benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will - John Donne Quotes

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. - John Donne Quotes

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

British Poet Death

When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain. - John Donne Quotes

When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain.

So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical. - John Donne Quotes

So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. - John Donne Quotes

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. - John Donne Quotes

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Age And Aging British Poet

Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm / Nor question much / That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm. - John Donne Quotes

Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm / Nor question much / That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am mine own Executioner. - John Donne Quotes

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am mine own Executioner.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can - John Donne Quotes

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . . - John Donne Quotes

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. - John Donne Quotes

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Affliction British Poet

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven - John Donne Quotes

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven

Despair Glory Peacefully

She, and comparisons are odious. - John Donne Quotes

She, and comparisons are odious.

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 Quotes

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.

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which too long have dwelt on thee - John Donne Quotes

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which too long have dwelt on thee

Desire Pain Sorrow

A bracelet of bright hair about the bone. - John Donne Quotes

A bracelet of bright hair about the bone.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. - John Donne Quotes

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

Free Enterprise

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book - John Donne Quotes

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book

Body

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 Quotes

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.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. - John Donne Quotes

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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