John Donne

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• 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.

  No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

  • Life & Death

• Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

  Elegies, No. 2, The Anagram, line 27

  • Beauty
  • Love

• More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

  Verse Letter to Sir Henry Wotton, written before April 1598, line 1

  • Writing

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost1874–1963The Road Not Taken (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), The Road Not Taken, st. 4In context

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