When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE
JOHN DONNE
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John DonneJohn Donne If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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John DonneJohn Donne For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
John DonneJohn Donne As soon as there was two there was pride.
John DonneJohn Donne 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 DonneJohn Donne What if this present were the world’s last night?
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John DonneJohn Donne Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
John DonneJohn Donne I am a little world made cunningly.
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