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lil · 3543 days ago · link · · parent · post: Fifth Bi-Weekly Give Me A Quote From Something You've Been Reading Lately
Excerpt from John Donne's Meditation 17 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. Paragraph 3 of a four-paragraph meditation. As I was reading CashewGuy's meditation on suicide and the impact suicide might have on other people, I found myself thinking of these lines from John Donne.