John Donne: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O, my America, my Newfoundland
My kingdom, safest when with one man mann'd,
My mine of precious stones, my empery;
How am I blest in thus discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds, is to be free;
Then, where my hand is set, my soul shall be.”

“Death is an ascension to a better library.”

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”

“Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.”

“And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.”

“Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.”

“No man is an island, entire of itself.”

“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.”

“Other men's crosses are not my crosses.”

“In Heaven, it is always Autumn".”

“I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite.”

“That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.”

“Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity”

“Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till we attain
To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.”

“I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.”

“Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”

“What if this present were the world's last night?”

“Hee drinkes misery, and he tastes happinesse; he mowes misery, and he gleanes happinesse; he journeys in misery, he does but walke in happinesse.”