425 Quotes by John Donne

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.

I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Other men's crosses are not my crosses.

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.