On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Africa and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.John Donne
Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.
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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.
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Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls For, thus friends absent speak.
John Donne
Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.
John Donne
Just such disparity As is 'twixt Air and Angles' purity 'Twixt women's love and men's will every be'.
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