425 Quotes by John Donne

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

...but come bad chanceAnd wee joyne to it our strengthAnd wee teach it art and lengthIt selfe o'er us to advance.

Out of a fired ship, which by no wayBut drowning could be rescued from the flame,Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they cameNear the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;So all were lost, which in the ship were found,They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

On a huge hill,Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that willReach her, about must, and about must goe;And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so;Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight,Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.

Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.

It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.