John Donne

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"Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name."	Love
"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks."	Age, Life, Love
"Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes."	Death, Equality
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."	Beauty, Death, Love
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls."	Miscellaneous
"No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; 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."	Art, Death, Friends
"Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere."	Love, Power
"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day."	Death, Fear, Time

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