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Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

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we give each other a smile with a future in it

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ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

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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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My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

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The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

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I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

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Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

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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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Death, thou shalt die.

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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

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