John Donne quotes

" Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity. " # Faith # Reason # Goals

" Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. " # Love

" 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 mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. " # Uncategorised # Friends and Friendship # Death and Dying

" Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere. " # Love

" No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. " # Beauty # Love # Autumn

" Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. " # Death and Dying

" Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke. " # Death and Dying # War # Kings

" Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name. " # Love

" I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry. " # Poetry and Poets # Fools and Foolishness # Love

" Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak. " # Letters # Friends and Friendship # Kisses and Kissing