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It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

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But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

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Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

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There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.

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No man is an island unto himself.

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All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.

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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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