John Donne

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.[The Autumnal]"

"“Death Be Not Proud 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. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be,Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,And soonest our best men with thee do go,Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. Thou'rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then?One short sleep past, we wake eternally,And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”"

"“I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying so.”"

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

"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."

"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."