John Donne Quotes
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Age, death's twilight.
No man is an island, entire of itself.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so.
Nature's great masterpiece, an Elephant, The only harmless great thing.
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity.
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.
No man is an island, entire of himself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Can there be worse sickness, than to know That we are never well, nor can be so?
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
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.
Death, be not proud. By 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.
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 any manner of thy friends 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 bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
All Kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. .. 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.
No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod ... 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.
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 friends 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 bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
