| 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� Devotion upon Emergent Occasions - Meditation XVII by John Donne 1573 - 1631 |