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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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• To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

  John Donne

  Writing, Lust, Rage

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

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• Who are a little wise the best fools be.

  John Donne

  Wise, Intellectual, Intelligence

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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!

  John Donne

  Love, Jesus, Strong

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

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• Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

  John Donne

  Joy, Serenity, Heaven

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• Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

  John Donne

  Infatuation, Take Me, Chaste

  'Holy Sonnets' (after 1609) no. 10 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

  John Donne

  Love Is, Long, Great Love

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

  John Donne

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  John Donne, David Colclough (2013). “The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Volume 3: Sermons Preached at the Court of Charles I”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

  John Donne

  Men, Dust, Ambitious

  John Donne (2010). “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In heaven it is always autumn.

  John Donne

  Autumn, Heaven

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.356, Oxford University Press, USA

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• True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

  John Donne

  True Joy, Heaven, Soul

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.80

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• I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

  John Donne

  Spring, Bravery, Done

  Songs and Sonnets "The Undertaking" (published 1633)

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• The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

  John Donne

  Distance, Progress, Degrees

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.30

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• And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

  John Donne

  Fear, Sight, Sea

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.227, Harvard University Press

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• We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Air, Long

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.496

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• God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

  John Donne

  War, Justice, Age

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

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• When I died last, and, Dear, I die
  As often as from thee I go
  Though it be but an hour ago,
  And lovers' hours be full eternity.

  John Donne

  Love, Retirement, Farewell

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Legacy'

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• Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

  John Donne

  Joy, Soul, Body

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

  John Donne

  Men, Disability, Old Man

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.28

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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.

  John Donne

  Graves, Feels, Humans

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• Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.

  John Donne

  Today, Sun

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

  John Donne

  Sports, Play, Loser

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• All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

  John Donne

  Mercy, All Time, All Occasions

  1624 Sermons,'Christmas Day, 1624'.

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• Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

  John Donne

  Solitude, Hell, Torment

  Awakenings

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