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John Donne
1572 - March 31, 1631
Nationality: British
Category: Poet
Subcategory: British Poet

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.

   

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

   

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

   

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

   

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.

   

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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