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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Such life is like the light which bideth yetWhen the lights life is set,
Or like the heat, which fire in solid matter
Leave behinde, two houres after.
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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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Just such disparity As is 'twixt Air and Angles' purity 'Twixt women's love and men's will every be'.
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What if this present were the world's last night.
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory
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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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