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• Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

  John Donne

  Men, Ants, Superiority

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.491

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

  John Donne

  Dream, Joy, Ifs

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

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• Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

  John Donne

  Love Is, Sin, Let Me

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• 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

  Death, Art, Thinking

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 6 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

  John Donne

  Friday, Morning, Passion

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• I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

  John Donne

  Book, Reading, Lovers

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.169, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The day breaks not, it is my heart.

  John Donne

  Heart, My Heart, Break

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics

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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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• Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

  John Donne

  Nature, Law, Goal

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• All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

  John Donne

  Life, War, Book

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.574

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• So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

  John Donne

  Angel, Flames, Voice

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Air and Angels'

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

  John Donne

  Pain, Sleep, Office

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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• To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

  John Donne

  Travel, Home, Banishment

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.52, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As soon as there was two there was pride.

  John Donne

  Pride, Two

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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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• No man is an island unto himself.

  John Donne

  Men, Islands

  John Donne (2006). “A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers, Late Wife of Sr. John Danvers (1627)”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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

  John Donne

  Heaven, Kingdoms, Rich

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

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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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• Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

  John Donne

  Art, Men, Passionate

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• A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

  John Donne

  Cat, Men, Lions

  John Donne (2011). “John Donne's Devotions”, p.82, CCEL

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

  John Donne

  Attitude, Positive Attitude, Changed

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

  John Donne

  Love, Time, Rags

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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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 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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• Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

  John Donne

  Love, Beauty, Sarcastic

  'Elegies' 'The Anagram' (1593-6)

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