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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF John Donne |
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Quotes By author - Starting with J - John Donne
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There are 56 quotes for the author John Donne
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Love & Romance
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter Love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best To use myself in jest, Thus by feigned deaths to die.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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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.
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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.
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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
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Yet call not this long life; but think that I
Am, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?
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Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream, It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were
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So, if I dream I have you, I have you, For all our joys are but fantastical.
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Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
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