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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.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes · 1624

★ 6.9

Sermon · Religious literature

It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal.

John Donne

1621

★ 3.7

Poem

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

1631

★ 3.7

Poem

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

1631

★ 3.6

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.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes · 1624

★ 3.5

Poem

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant, The only harmless great thing.

John Donne

1633

★ 2.0

Poem

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

John Donne

Songs and Sonnets · 1631

★ 1.9

Poem

Full nakedness, all joys are due to thee. As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, To taste whole joys.

John Donne

The Harmony of the Muses · 1631

★ 1.9

Poem

All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw; Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

John Donne

Songs and Sonnets · 1631

★ 1.9

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