"God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."
-John Donne
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"As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no."
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"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
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"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing."
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"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."
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"He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God."
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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
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