A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present. John Donne More Quotes by John Donne More Quotes From John Donne Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps. John Donne small-steps tomorrow steps Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life. John Donne critical courses life I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. John Donne subjects The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. John Donne fleas ethics doe Other men's crosses are not my crosses. John Donne crosses men Lust-bred diseases rot thee. John Donne thee disease lust Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow. John Donne sorrow yesterday children And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect. John Donne perfect desire mean Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today. John Donne sun today The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms. John Donne rich kingdoms heaven Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles. John Donne sight young men I find no abhorring in my appetite. John Donne appetite I sing the progress of a deathless soul. John Donne deathless progress soul Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols. John Donne body soul heaven That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget. John Donne debt remember thinking To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love. John Donne rage lust writing When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust. John Donne ambitious dust men Kind pity chokes my spleen. John Donne pity choke kind Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is. John Donne soul men moving My love though silly is more brave. John Donne brave silly
