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I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

John Donne

Love, Long, Ghost

'Songs and Sonnets' 'Love's Deity'

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I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

John Donne

Honesty, Integrity, Yield

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On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will
Reach her, about must, and about must goo.

John Donne

Truth, Hills, Steep

John Donne, William Blake (1946). “The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne: & the Complete Poetry of William Blake”

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What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

John Donne

Marriage, Sight, Tickling

John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.320, Oxford University Press, USA

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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

John Donne

Happiness, Joy, Enjoyment

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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

John Donne

Moving, Two, Feet

John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.555

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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.

John Donne

Flower, Men, Dust

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To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic.

John Donne

Success, Media, Achievement

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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

John Donne

Humility, Night, Men

John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.149

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Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

John Donne

Men, Doubt, Phrases

John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.462

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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

John Donne

Love, Nature, Taught

John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.26, Litres

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A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.

John Donne

Good Night, Valentine, Clothes

John Donne (1949). “The complete poems of John Donne”

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

John Donne

Fall, Power, Men

John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.

John Donne

Small Steps, Steps, Tomorrow

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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

John Donne

Hair, Heaven, Soul

'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Funeral'

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

John Donne

Angel, Whining, Chamber

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

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That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

John Donne

Thinking, Debt, Remember

John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.175, Oxford University Press, USA

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There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

John Donne

Miracle, Needs, World

John Donne (2000). “The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.769, Modern Library

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Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

John Donne

Lust, Disease, Thee

John Donne (2000). “The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.124, Modern Library

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And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?

John Donne

Death, Sheets, Intricate

John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.468

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It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

John Donne

Men, World, Littles

John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.257, Paulist Press

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Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

John Donne

Love, Angel, Flames

'Songs and Sonnets' 'Air and Angels'

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To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

John Donne

Lying, Judging, Answers

John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.364

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

John Donne

Men, Soul, Virtuous

'Songs and Sonnets' 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning'

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And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

John Donne

Night, Scapes, Everlasting

'A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's last going into Germany' (1619)

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Born: January 22, 1572
Died: March 31, 1631
Occupation: Poet
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