Here are some prime cuts from John Donne:
I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.
- from "The Triple Fool"
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- from "Elegy II: The Anagram"
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.
- from "Meditation XVII"
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