No Man is an Island

 

No man is an island entire of itself; every man’s life 

is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;

if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe

is the lesser, as well as if a promontory were, as

well as any manner of thy friends or of thine

own were; any man's death diminishes me,

for I am involved in mankinde.

And therefore send not to know for whom

the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

 John Donne