John Donne Quotes

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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.

  John Donne

  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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

  John Donne

  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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• More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

  John Donne

  Love, Romantic, Kissing

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

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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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• 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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• 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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• Sleep is pain's easiest salve

  John Donne

  Pain, Sleep

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.51, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

  John Donne

  Heavenly, Dies

  John Donne (1839). “Sermons”, p.238

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

  John Donne

  Friendship, God, Faith

  John Donne (1839). “Sermons”, p.238

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• Death is an ascension to a better library.

  John Donne

  Library, Ascension

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• Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

  John Donne

  Humiliation, Sanctification

  John Donne (2003). “One Equall Light: An Anthology of the Writings of John Donne”, p.267, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• we give each other a smile with a future in it

  John Donne

  Giving

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• How imperfect is all our knowledge!

  John Donne

  Imperfect

  1626 Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

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

  John Donne

  Death, Book, Men

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

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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.

  John Donne

  Doing Good, Lost, Communion

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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.

  John Donne

  Love, Sweet, Art

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

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• 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

  Death, Peace, Grief

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

  John Donne

  Heart, Cheerful, God Love

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• I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

  John Donne

  Love, Wonder, Wedding Poetry

  Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

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• To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

  John Donne

  Rejection, Body

  John Donne, Paul M. Oliver (2002). “John Donne: Selected Letters”, p.35, Psychology Press

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• I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

  John Donne

  Love, Hate, Men

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.242

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