No Man Is an Island

John Donne

1572 to 1631

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And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
Any man’s death diminishes me,
No man is an island,
Or of thine own were.
Every man is a piece of the continent,
Europe is the less,
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
It tolls for thee.
Because I am involved in mankind.
As well as if a promontory were:
A part of the main.
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Entire of itself;

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