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ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
Lawyer
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London
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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
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