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John Donne1572–1631

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated

John Donne on life and death

No Man Is an Island (1624)

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
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.
No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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