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.


Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) 'Meditation XVII'

John Donne Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.