Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil John Donne More Quotes by John Donne More Quotes From John Donne True and false fears let us refrain, 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. John Donne writing time love And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair. John Donne swear women life Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde. John Donne honesty children fall A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat . John Donne lions cat men How much shall I be changed, before I am changed! John Donne positive-attitude changed attitude Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. John Donne greediness waste goodness What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God? John Donne tickling marriage sight If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that. John Donne gnats creeps god To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer. John Donne judging answers lying All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. John Donne prison-life life-and-death going-out Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night. John Donne light love night Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love? John Donne declaration inward love The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. John Donne progress degrees distance Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so? John Donne sickness wells knows All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay. John Donne our-love decay destruction My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die. John Donne dies world He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book. John Donne should desire book And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night. John Donne scapes everlasting night To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts. John Donne graves humans feels Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; John Donne angel integrity men
