Love was as subtly caught, as a disease But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.
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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.John Donne
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies;
Choose this face, changed by no deformities.
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To All, which all love, I say no.
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Or do they reach his judging mind, that he
Should now love less what he did love to see?
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Take heed of loving me.
John Donne
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