John Donne Quotes

No man is an island, entire of itself.

O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.

One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.

Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.

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.

Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.

Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.

I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.

Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.

If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.

The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.

Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

More than kisses letters mingle souls.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.