No Man Is an Island, by John Donne (1624)

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No man is an island,

Entire of itself;

Every man is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less,

As well as if a promontory were:

As well as if a manor of thy friend's

Or of thine own were.

Any man's death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind.

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

It tolls for thee.

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From the prose work ''Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes'', 1624.