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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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's Quotations

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Born	Close	Conceived	Death
Execution	Going	House	Larger
Liberty	Life	Mothers	Place
Prison	Prisoners	Still	Though
Walls	Within	Wombs

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