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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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• . . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

  John Donne

  Life, Change, Joy

  John Donne (2012). “John Donne”, p.39, Faber & Faber

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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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• The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

  John Donne

  Suffering, Psalms

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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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• 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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• 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

  Love, Running, Yesterday

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Anniversary'

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

  John Donne

  Love, Book, Soul

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.123, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

  John Donne

  Sleep, Calling, May

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• Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

  John Donne

  Example, Scripture, Commentary

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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.

  John Donne

  Heart, Blow, Shining

  Holy Sonnets no. 10 (published 1633)

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• There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

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  Exercise, Miracle, Done

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) Easter Day, 25 March 1627

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• Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

  John Donne

  Names, Virtue, Knows

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.481

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• Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

  John Donne

  Sex, Hands, Roving

  c.1595 Elegies, no.19,'To His Mistress Going to Bed'.

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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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• 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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• Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

  John Donne

  Pleasure, Ifs

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

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• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

  God, Christian, Prayer

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

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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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• God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

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  God, Autumn, Maturity

  John Donne (1963). “John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations”, p.182, Univ of California Press

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• Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

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  Friendship, Eye, Faces

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• Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

  John Donne

  Children, Honesty, Fall

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• Friends are ourselves.

  John Donne

  Friends

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• Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

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  Home, Eye, Long

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.107, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Death, thou shalt die.

  John Donne

  Dies

  Holy Sonnets no. 6 (1609)

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