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John Donne

John Donne

British Poet

Born: 1572

Died: Mar 31, 1631

Death God Love Man Me Own

Related authors: Carol Ann Duffy Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Bibesco George Herbert Helen Dunmore Lord Byron Samuel Butler Thomas Babington Macaulay

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. John Donne

Man Every Entire Piece Island Continent Itself Every Man

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. John Donne

Great Nature Harmless Only Great Thing Masterpiece Elephant Thing

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. John Donne

Love God Me Sake Hold Your Tongue

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

Motivational World Own Thy Jail Palace Thine

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne

Love Beauty Soon Built Dies

More than kisses, letters mingle souls. John Donne

Mingle Kisses More Souls Than Letters

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. John Donne

Death Art Me Those Thou Thou Art Though Dreadful Some Proud Nor Overthrow Die Canst Thee Dost Poor Mighty Whom

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. John Donne

Joy Hell Damp Despair Heaven Serenity

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. John Donne

Humiliation Beginning Sanctification

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

Saying Fools Poetry Know Am Loving Whining Two

Pleasure is none, if not diversified. John Donne

Pleasure Diversified None

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner. John Donne

Myself Own Nothing My Own Executioner Am

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. John Donne

Wicked Worse Indiscreet Than Much

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. John Donne

Differences Doors States Weaknesses Compose Determine Parliament Part Known Within Families Quiet Subsist Being Keeping

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? John Donne

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