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Quotes from John Donne

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
~ John Donne
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
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?
~ John Donne
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
~ John Donne
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
~ John Donne
I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
~ John Donne
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
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
~ John Donne
The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
~ John Donne
God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
~ John Donne
Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.
~ John Donne
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
~ John Donne
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
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.
~ John Donne
Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.
~ John Donne
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
~ John Donne
Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
~ John Donne
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
~ John Donne
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
~ John Donne
Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
~ John Donne
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
~ John Donne
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
~ John Donne
Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.
~ John Donne
we give each other a smile with a future in it
~ John Donne