Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNEBe thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
More John Donne Quotes
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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God 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.
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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
JOHN DONNE