{"author":"John Donne","author_id":"John+Donne","total_quotes":64,"quotes":[{"text":"If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.","author":"John Donne","tags":["love","poetry"],"id":7580,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.","author":"John Donne","tags":["i am","loving","know "],"id":8768,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"We say that the world is made of sea and land, as though they were equal; but we know that there is more sea in the Western than in the Eastern hemisphere. We say that the firmament is full of stars, as though it were equally full; but we know that there are more stars under the Northern than the Southern pole. We say the element of man are misery and happiness, as though he had an equal proportion of both, and the days of man vicissitudinary, as though he had as many good days as ill, and that he lived under a perpetual equinoctial, night and day equal, good and ill fortune in the same measure. But it is far from that; he drinks in misery, and he tastes happiness; he journeys in misery, he does but walk in happiness: and, which is worstn his misery is positive and dogmatical, his happiness is but disputable and problematical: all men call misery misery, but happiness changes the name by the taste of man.","author":"John Donne","tags":["food-for-thought","happiness","misery"],"id":9949,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.","author":"John Donne","tags":["anniversary","poetry"],"id":16887,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"I joy, that in these straits I see my west;.","author":"John Donne","tags":["comfort","death","the-end"],"id":18974,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Donne","tags":["death"],"id":20198,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.","author":"John Donne","tags":["love","me","tongue "],"id":22115,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.","author":"John Donne","tags":["great","elephant","masterpiece "],"id":40970,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"More than kisses  letters mingle souls.","author":"John Donne","tags":["words","language"],"id":48213,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.","author":"John Donne","tags":["beauty","inconstancy","instability","love","passage-of-time","precariousness"],"id":48816,"author_id":"John+Donne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}