We are all conceived in close ...

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
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 John Donne

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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
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 John Donne
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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 John Donne
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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 John Donne
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.
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 John Donne
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
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 John Donne