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Meditation XVII
John Donne

...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;
and every chapter must be so translated;
God employs several translators;
some pieces are translated by age,
some by sickness, some by war,
some by justice;
but God's hand is in every translation,
and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again
for that library where every book shall lie open to one another...