No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am… — John Donne

No man is an Island, entire of itself...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.

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes · 1624
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Provenance
Current citation
Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.
Original citation
Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.