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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

John Donne
Book, Desire, Should
John Donne “The Sermons of John Donne”, Univ of California Press

And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.

John Donne
Mean, Perfect, Desire
1626 Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

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