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Quote by John Donne
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends

SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. – John Donne

Other quotes by John Donne

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. – John Donne

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Prison
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John Donne
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. – John Donne

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Letters (writing)
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A womans best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. – Lawrence Durrell

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Letters (writing)

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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Letters (writing)

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Letters (writing)

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. – Samuel Johnson

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Letters (writing)

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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Politics is not about power. – Paul Wellstone

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Ones own religion is after all a matter between oneself and ones Maker and no one elses. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I dont have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books. – John Green

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