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• God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

  John Donne

  Atheist, Men, Thinking

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.141, Paulist Press

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• Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

  John Donne

  Time, Art, Philosophy

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

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• Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.

  John Donne

  Time, Spring, Shadow

  1624 Sermons,'Christmas Day, 1624'.

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• Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

  John Donne

  Creativity, Creation, Poetry Is

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.498

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• As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

  John Donne

  Family, Doors, Differences

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• And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

  John Donne

  Love, Forget, Dare

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.254

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• Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

  John Donne

  Thinking, Poor, True You

  John Donne, “The Indifferent”

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• Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

  John Donne

  Save Nature

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• Kind pity chokes my spleen.

  John Donne

  Kind, Pity, Choke

  1594-5 Satires, no.3.

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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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• God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

  John Donne

  Death, Men, Good Man

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.241

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• Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

  John Donne

  Spirit, Melancholy, Spirit Of God

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• Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me,
  Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest,
  Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed,
  By cursed Cain's race invented be,
  And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.

  John Donne

  Art, Science, Race

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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• Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

  John Donne

  Art, Women, Searchers

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.91, Delphi Classics

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• Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

  John Donne

  Heaven, Soul, Body

  1611 'An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary'.

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• Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.

  John Donne

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

  John Donne

  Lying, Valentine, Fall

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.47, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
  Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
  For in best understandings sin began,
  Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
  Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
  Are beasts in all but white integrity.

  John Donne

  Integrity, Angel, Men

  John Donne (1896). “Poems of John Donne”

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• Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

  John Donne

  Love, Night, Light

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.137, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

  John Donne

  Love, Running, Fool

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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• From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

  John Donne

  Sleep, Men, Soul

  c.1610-1615 Holy Sonnets, no.10.

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• ...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.

  John Donne

  Love Is, Two, Dies

  John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.78, Litres

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• Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.

  John Donne

  Stars, Princess, Fall

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

  John Donne

  Philosophy, Fire, Doubt

  'An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary' (1611) l. 205

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• Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

  John Donne

  Thee, Kill Me, Dies

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

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