The collection of works by the metaphysical poet is expected to be sold for between £200,000 and £300,000 A previously unknown 400-year-old manuscript of works by English poet John Donne has ...

A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...

Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den? 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.

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2. Bring happiness to others. You are not an island, as the English poet John Donne observed, and working for your own happiness should be part of a bigger project to build a better world.

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British poet and scholar John Donne famously wrote ‘No man is an island’ in his poem of the same name, and the adage has remained in popular vernacular since its 16th century beginnings. The original ...

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