John Donne
16 quotations
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
More than kisses letters mingle souls.
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.