"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
-John Donne
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"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."
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"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
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"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
-John Donne
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"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."
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"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
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-Helen Keller
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