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Verified "Though Truth and Falsehood be Near twins, yet Truth a little elder is." Source: Satyre III "No man is an island, entire of itself; 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 if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's 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…" Source: Meditation 17 (1624) "Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind." Source: Go and Catch a Falling Star "No where Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet; Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we might meet, Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three." Source: Go and Catch a Falling Star "I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is to keep that hid." Source: The Undertaking "Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time." Source: The Sun Rising "For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love." Source: The Canonization from Holy Sonnets I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite. (5.1) At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow Your trumpets, Angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattred bodies go, (7.1) Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death; nor yet canst thou kill me. (10.1) Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or chrarms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke. (10.9) One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. (10.13) What if this present were the world's last night? (13.1) See: list of people by name