How imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNEHow imperfect is all our knowledge!
JOHN DONNEDespair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
JOHN DONNEI am a little world made cunningly.
JOHN DONNENo man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNEGod employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
JOHN DONNEAny 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.
JOHN DONNEI observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNELove, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNEArt is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEAs he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
JOHN DONNEHow great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
JOHN DONNEOur critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
JOHN DONNEI am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNEGod affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNELove 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