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John Donne1572–1631

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 on life and death

No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17

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