"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."
-John Donne
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"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.“
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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."
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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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"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right."
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