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We love and understand talent we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure Time shall not lose our passages.
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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
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