“No man is an Iland, intire of
itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod
bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie
were, as well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans
death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never
send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”
(MEDITATION XVII., Devotions
upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne)
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