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Top 200 John Donne Quotes (2024 Update)
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John Donne Quote: “Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.”
John Donne Quote: “Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!”
John Donne Quote: “Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.”
John Donne Quote: “How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.”
John Donne Quote: “What if this present were the world’s last night?”
John Donne Quote: “The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.”
John Donne Quote: “The day breaks not, it is my heart.”
John Donne Quote: “Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.”
John Donne Quote: “The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.”
John Donne Quote: “If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.”
John Donne Quote: “Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, then idiot with none.”
John Donne Quote: “I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.”
John Donne Quote: “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 Quote: “Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.”
John Donne Quote: “I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.”
John Donne Quote: “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 Quote: “Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.”
John Donne Quote: “From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.”
John Donne Quote: “And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.”
John Donne Quote: “Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.”
John Donne Quote: “Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.”
John Donne Quote: “Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.”
John Donne Quote: “Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.”
John Donne Quote: “That our affections kill us not, nor dye.”
John Donne Quote: “Other men’s crosses are not my crosses.”
John Donne Quote: “There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.”
John Donne Quote: “Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.”
John Donne Quote: “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 Quote: “To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.”
John Donne Quote: “God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man’s grave is his Sabbath.”
John Donne Quote: “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 Quote: “He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.”
John Donne Quote: “As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.”
John Donne Quote: “O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.”
John Donne Quote: “The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.”
John Donne Quote: “Young men mend not their sight by using old men’s spectacles.”
John Donne Quote: “All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”
John Donne Quote: “I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.”
John Donne Quote: “A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.”
John Donne Quote: “In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.”
John Donne Quote: “I find no abhorring in my appetite.”
John Donne Quote: “I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?”
John Donne Quote: “The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.”
John Donne Quote: “First, I give my gracious God an entire sacrifice of body and soul, with my most humble thanks for that assurance which His Blessed Spirit imprints in me now of the Salvation of the one, and the Resurrection of the other;.”
John Donne Quote: “O how feeble is man’s power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!”
John Donne Quote: “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 my self in jest Thus by feign’d deaths to die.”
John Donne Quote: “Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell’st thou then?”
John Donne Quote: “On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.”
John Donne Quote: “And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.”
John Donne Quote: “Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.”
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