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John Donne

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John Donne may not have a Wikipedia page, but their words have earned a place in our collection all the same. Their thinking spans from Death to Beauty, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 15 quotes from John Donne, each offering a different angle on Death, Beauty, Art, War, and Sad. Among their most shared lines: "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

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

— John Donne

Motivational

All Quotes by John Donne

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

— John Donne

Motivational

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

— John Donne

Beauty

“I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.”

— John Donne

Poetry

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

— John Donne

Faith

“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.”

— John Donne

God

“Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.”

— John Donne

Art

“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”

— John Donne

Love

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

— John Donne

Beauty

“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.”

— John Donne

Sad

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

— John Donne

Nature

“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

Death

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

— John Donne

Age

“Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”

— John Donne

Art