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«One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.»
«Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book»
Author: John Donne
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«Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory»
«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...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.»
Author: John Donne
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«Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail»
«Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.»
«Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.»
«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.»
Author: John Donne
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Mankind
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«Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were»
«No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.»
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