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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

~John Donne

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

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

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For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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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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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

Died: March 31st, 1631

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