’Tis the year’s midnight, and it is the day’s.

John Donne · A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, being the shortest day, st. 1

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne · The source reads: “Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;” · The first line of a verse letter to his friend Henry Wotton, written in his twenties.

O my America! my new-found land.

John Donne · Elegies, 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed

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, 17

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We are in God’s hand.

William Shakespeare · King Henry V (1598–1599), III, vi

So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

Victor Hugo · Les Misérables (1862), preface

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Samuel Johnson

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“’Tis the year’s midnight, and it is the day’s.”

“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”

“O my America! my new-found land.”

“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.”

“We are in God’s hand.”

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

“Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”