John Donne Quotes

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  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne

  Teamwork, Men, Grieving

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

  John Donne

  Truth, Honesty, Alcohol

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• I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

  John Donne

  Funny, Humorous, Health

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The works of John Donne: Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631”, p.518

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the 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 friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  John Donne

  Beauty, Summer, Spring

  'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

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• Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

  John Donne

  Wisdom, Political, Equal

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 8 March 1621/2

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• Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

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  Pleasure, Ifs

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

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

  John Donne

  Motivational, Jail, World

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

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• The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

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  Heaven, Kingdoms, Rich

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford”, p.196

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• Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

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  Death, Men, Birth

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.240

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• If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

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  Dream, Joy, Ifs

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Dream' ('Image of her whom I love')

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

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  Friendship, God, Faith

  John Donne (1839). “Sermons”, p.238

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• 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.

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  Love, Cute, Anniversary

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Bait'

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• Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

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  Integrity, Sleep, Night

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218

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• O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

  John Donne

  Thinking, Suffering, Needs

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• What if this present were the world's last night?

  John Donne

  Night, History, What If

  Holy Sonnets no. 9 (published 1633)

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• More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

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  Love, Romantic, Kissing

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

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• Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

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  Love, Sweet, Art

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.115, Delphi Classics

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• ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

  John Donne

  Death, Grief, Bereavement

  John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”

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• 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....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

  Book, Men, Islands

  1624 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation no.17.

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• Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

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  Love, Jesus, Strong

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.18

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• To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

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  Graves, Feels, Humans

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• Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

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  Heart, Blow, Shining

  Holy Sonnets no. 10 (published 1633)

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

  John Donne

  Creativity, Creation, Poetry Is

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.498

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

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  Love, Two, Fool

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Triple Fool'

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