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John Henry Newman:A great memory does not make a


A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
by John Henry Newman


William Shakespeare:What a piece of work is man!


What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
by William Shakespeare


John Donne:No man is an Island, entire of it


No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as ifa promitory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; 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.
by John Donne


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