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Quotes from John Donne

...if I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow lose, he blasphemes, so that God is always sure to be a loser.
~ John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...
~ John Donne
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
~ John Donne
No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
~ John Donne
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.
~ John Donne
Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
~ John Donne
I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
~ John Donne
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
~ John Donne
Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.
~ John Donne
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
~ John Donne
Death is an ascension to a better library.
~ John Donne
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
~ John Donne
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.
~ John Donne
Death, thou shalt die.
~ John Donne
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
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .
~ John Donne
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
One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.
~ John Donne
Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.
~ John Donne
Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
~ John Donne
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
~ John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
~ John Donne
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
~ John Donne
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. [ The Autumnal ]
~ John Donne