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Letter "J" » John Donne Quotes
«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.»
«For, thus friends absent speak.»
Author: John Donne
«There is nothing which God hath established in a constant cause of nature, and which therefore is done everyday, but would seem a miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.»
Author: John Donne
«Pleasure is none, if not diversified.»
«God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath»
Author: John Donne
| About:
God
«But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am mine own Executioner.»
«I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.»
Author: John Donne
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coach
«Go, and catch a falling star, / Get with child a mandrake root, / Tell me, where all past years are, / Or who cleft the Devil's foot.»
«At the round earth's imagined corners, blow / Your trumpets, Angels, and arise, arise / From death, you numberless infinities / Of souls.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
Angel of death, corners, death angel, imagined, Infinities, numberless, trumpets
«The world's whole sap is sunk: / The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk.»
Author: John Donne
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