John Donne Quotes

More than kisses letters mingle souls.

All kings and all their favourites All glory of honours beauties wits The sun itself which makes time as they pass Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw Only our love hath no decay This no to-morrow hath nor yesterday Running it never runs from us away But truly keeps his first last everlasting day.

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

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.

Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.

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

Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.