Top 246 Quotes & Sayings by John Donne - Page 5

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British poet John Donne.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
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
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.
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