When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. John Donne More Quotes by John Donne More Quotes From John Donne Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is. John Donne doubt sleep running Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. John Donne phrases doubt men Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were 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 As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else. John Donne Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day. John Donne Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him... John Donne I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. John Donne loving i-am saying poetry Duplicated: Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; ... (Repeated twice) John Donne
