Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy… — John Donne Copy Share Image
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill — John Donne Copy Share Image
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life. — John Donne Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but… — John Donne Copy Share Image
We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Various content To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part. If then your body go, what need you a heart? — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne Copy Share Image
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull… — John Donne Copy Share Image
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by… — John Donne Copy Share Image
