"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
-John Donne
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"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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"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."
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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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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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