Sunday, 8 March 2009

A thought for a Sunday


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.


John Donne (1572 – 1631)

From:
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Meditation XVII.

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