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| John Donne |
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. . 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; God employs several translators; some
pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice;
but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our
scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one
another . . .”
John Donne, from Devotions Upon Emergent
Occasions, Meditation XVII.
