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War Quotes by John Donne
- As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
- All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And…
- At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth,…
- Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us…
- God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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