Author: John Donne

Quotes

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

- John Donne

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

- John Donne

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

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

- John Donne

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

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

- John Donne

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

- John Donne

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

- John Donne

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

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

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

- John Donne

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

- John Donne

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