John Donne Quotes - Page 5

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• Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

  John Donne

  Men, Guilt, Shame

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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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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• Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

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  Waste, Goodness, Greediness

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.37, Lulu.com

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• All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

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  Decay, Our Love, Destruction

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Anniversary'

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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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• Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

  John Donne

  Elephants, Masterpiece, Great Things

  'The Progress of the Soul' (1601) st. 39

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• Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

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  Soul, Poor, Perplexed

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 25 January 1628/9

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• We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

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  Waiting, Wish, Genius

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• He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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  Book, Desire, Should

  John Donne “The Sermons of John Donne”, Univ of California Press

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• God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

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  Angel, Stones, Fairy

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons”, p.137

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• Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

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  Life, Critical, Courses

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.291

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• Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

  John Donne

  Love, Death, Self

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Song: Sweetest love, I do not go'

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• Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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  Courage, Despair, Cowardice

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• But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

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  Love, Color, Clothes

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

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  Christian, Anger, Sun

  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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• I am a little world made cunningly.

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  World, Littles, Made

  'Holy Sonnets' (after 1609) no. 15 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

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  Sticks, Hook, Benefits

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.481

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• Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

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  Men, Doe, Pieces

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• If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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  Time, Long, Eternity

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.7, Paulist Press

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• Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

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  Men, Whispering, Cry

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.358, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Suth wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I began.

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  Running, Moving, Home

  c.1595-1605 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

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• Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

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  Love, Inward, Declaration

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons”, p.258

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• In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

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  Soul, Doe, Firsts

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford”, p.319

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• Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

  John Donne

  Prayer, Memories, Eye

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