John Donne Quotes - Page 9

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• At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

  John Donne

  War, Angel, Blow

  John Donne, John Daniel Thieme (2014). “John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme”, p.23, Vicarage Hill Press

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• I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

  John Donne

  Death, Exercise, Swimming

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.321

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• But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

  John Donne

  Executioners, Sabotage, My Own

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• All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

  John Donne

  Life And Death, Prison Life, Going Out

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.500

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• Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

  John Donne

  Life, Sleep, Men

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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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• My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

  John Donne

  Love, Heart, Eye

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

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• That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

  John Donne

  Soul

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.345, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

  John Donne

  Running, Time, Fire

  c.1595 Elegies, no.12,'His Parting from Her'.

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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? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call countryants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

  John Donne

  Running, Time, Kings

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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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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• As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

  John Donne

  War, Hieroglyphics, Misery

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.236

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• The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

  John Donne

  Book, Men, World

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.484

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• Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

  John Donne

  Peace, Men, Long

  John Donne, Michael Rudick, M. Pabst Battin (1982). “Biathanatos”, New York : Garland Pub.

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• If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

  John Donne

  Death, Envy, Tree

  Holy Sonnets no. 5 (published 1633)

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• Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

  John Donne

  Running, Sleep, Doubt

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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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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• So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

  John Donne

  Kissing, Break Off, Two

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.316

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• This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.

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  Love, Moving, Soul

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• If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

  John Donne

  God, Gnats, Creeps

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.415

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• Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

  John Donne

  Sickness, Wells, Knows

  John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.19, Litres

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• Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

  John Donne

  Two, Space, Done

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.370

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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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• When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

  John Donne

  Fall, Expression, Hands

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.386

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• Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

  John Donne

  Men, Heaven

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA

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