Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world. - John Donne Quotes
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world. John Donne
 Humankind Man

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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

John Donne

 
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.

John Donne

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

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

John Donne

 British Poet
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.

John Donne

 
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.

John Donne

 
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.

John Donne

 
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

John Donne

 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.

John Donne

 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

John Donne

 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.

John Donne

 British Poet
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