120 ordspråk av John Donne
John Donne
John Donne föddes den January 24th 1572 och dog den 31 March 1631 - English writer
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 'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's. |
| A bracelet of bright hair about the bone. |
| Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. |
| All day, the same our postures were, / And we said nothing all the day. |
| All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...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. |
| All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death |
| And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it. |
| And now good morrow to our waking souls, which watch not one another out of fear; for love, all love of other sights controls, and makes one little room, an everywhere |
| And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee |
| 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. |
| Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. |
| As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else |
| As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery |
| As soon as there was two there was pride |
| As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. |
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Proverb (1469539 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
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Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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