Friends are ourselves. John Donne More Quotes by John Donne More Quotes From John Donne Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call countryants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. John Donne kingstimerunning Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed. John Donne bedlovelying If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been. John Donne eternitytimelong The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love. John Donne phoenixlovesex The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety. John Donne shouldloveheaven And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She. John Donne dareforgetlove Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love. John Donne taughtnaturelove Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. John Donne soullovedull God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath. John Donne good-manmendeath We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs. John Donne asheslovepeace If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. John Donne feettwomoving God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw. John Donne fairyangelstones I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind. John Donne yieldhonestyintegrity So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often. John Donne flamesvoiceangel Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. John Donne menpeacelong There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once. John Donne miracledoneexercise If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be? John Donne envytreedeath We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. John Donne walljailmother If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical. John Donne ifsdreamjoy I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good. John Donne doing-goodcommunionlost
