John Donne

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

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.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

More than kisses letters mingle souls.

All kings and all their favourites All glory of honours beauties wits The sun itself which makes time as they pass Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw Only our love hath no decay This no to-morrow hath nor yesterday Running it never runs from us away But truly keeps his first last everlasting day.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does but know but the man knows that he knows.

Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.

I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.

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

No man is an Island intire of it self every man is a peece of the Continent a part of the maine if a Clod be washed away by the sea Europe is the lesse as well as if a Promontorie were as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.