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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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Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.

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The day breaks not, it is my heart.

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There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

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The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.

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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

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

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Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

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Other men's crosses are not my crosses.

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Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

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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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This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

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And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

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I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...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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Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?

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The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

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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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