All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not… — John Donne
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.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes · 1624
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Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.
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Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.
