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Famous John Donne Quotes
“Sleep is pain's easiest salve”
Source: Selected Poetry
Source: Selected poems
“Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.”
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
Source: The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life
“But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life