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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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I find no abhorring in my appetite.

John Donne

Appetite

John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.540

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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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Whoever loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

John Donne

Love, Sea, Sick

'Elegies' 'Love's Progress' (1599-1601)

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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

John Donne

Dating, Church, Noble

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Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

John Donne

Heart, Mad, May

"John Donne: The Major Works".

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My love though silly is more brave.

John Donne

Silly, Brave

John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

John Donne

Children, Yesterday, Sorrow

John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

John Donne

Greatness, Men, World

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We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

John Donne

Love, Peace, Ashes

John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

John Donne

Past, Punishment, Faults

John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.561

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I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

John Donne

Doors, Noise, Whining

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

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Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

John Donne

Littles, Twins, Truth And Falsehood

John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.411

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

John Donne

Men, Affliction, Treasure

John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.575

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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

John Donne

Sleep, Thinking

John Donne (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

John Donne

Angel, Men, Understanding

John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.455

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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

John Donne

Love, Time, Writing

John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

John Donne

Life, Women, Swear

John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

John Donne

Health, Physicians, Neutrality

John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.81

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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

John Donne

Philosophy, Men, Differences

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

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I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

John Donne

Love, Country, Wonder

Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

John Donne

Levels, Bling, Ugly

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Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

John Donne

Moving, Men, Soul

'Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward', published 1635.

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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

John Donne

God, Eye, Men

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

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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

John Donne

Lying, Men, Soul

'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Ecstasy'

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