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John Donne

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


— John Donne


#hold #love #me #sake #tongue

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.


— John Donne


#called #canst #death #die #dost

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.


— John Donne


#humiliation #sanctification

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.


— John Donne


#executioner #i #i am #i do #my own

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.


— John Donne


#book #chapter #dies #into #language

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.


— John Donne


#despair #heaven #hell #joy #serenity

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.


— John Donne


#employs #god #justice #pieces #several

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.


— John Donne


#fools #i #i am #know #loving

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.


— John Donne


#breath #friends #go #goes #men

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.


— John Donne


#i #me #none #save #since






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During this time Donne wrote but did not publish Biathanatos his defence of suicide. During his convalescence he wrote a series of meditations and prayers on health pain and sickness that were publiJohn Donned as a book in 1624 under the title of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. Legacy
Donne is commemorated as a priest in the calendar of the Church of England and in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on 31 March.

In 1615 he became an Anglican priest although he did not want to take Anglican orders. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits. He also served as a member of parliament in 1601 and in 1614.

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