Quotes by John Donne
The world's whole sap is sunk: / The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk.
For good and evil in our actions meet; wicked is not much worse than indiscreet
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
As soon as there was two there was pride
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am mine own Executioner.
Whenever any affliction assails me, I have the keys of my prison in mine own hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so: and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgments upon them.
