All John Donne Quotes
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
John Donne
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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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.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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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.
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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
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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.
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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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