"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent."
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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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"Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes."
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"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?"
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"Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be."
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"What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?"
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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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"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."
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"ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"
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"Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys."
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"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."
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"True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in."
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"Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book."
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"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks."
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"we give each other a smile with a future in it"
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"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
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"The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation."
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