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DO NOT SEND TO FIND FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, IT TOLLS FOR THEE

DO NOT SEND TO FIND FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, IT TOLLS FOR THEE
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taken from the poem "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions" by English poet, John Donne (1572? - 1631). The section of the poem containing this line is: "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 friends 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." —The Dynamics Glossary. Final approval 14/9/89