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John Donne

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“I sing the progress of a deathless soul.”
— The Progress of the Soul (1601), stanza 1
“Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.”
— No. 7, Nature's Lay Idiot, line 1
“Age is a sickness, and Youth is an ambush.”
— Meditation 7
“My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not say a literal God, a God that wouldst be understood literally and according to the plain sense of all that thou sayest? But thou art also...a figurative, a metaphorical God too.”
— Expostulation 19
“And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”
— No. 54, preached to the King at Whitehall, 5 April 1628
“To worthiest things, virtue, art, beauty, fortune, now I see, rareness of use, not nature value brings.”
— Reported in C. N. Douglas, ed., Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

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“I sing the progress of a deathless soul.”
— The Progress of the Soul (1601), stanza 1
“Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.”
— No. 7, Nature's Lay Idiot, line 1
“Age is a sickness, and Youth is an ambush.”
— Meditation 7
“My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not say a literal God, a God that wouldst be understood literally and according to the plain sense of all that thou sayest? But thou art also...a figurative, a metaphorical God too.”
— Expostulation 19
“And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”
— No. 54, preached to the King at Whitehall, 5 April 1628
“To worthiest things, virtue, art, beauty, fortune, now I see, rareness of use, not nature value brings.”
— Reported in C. N. Douglas, ed., Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.