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Did John Donne say “No man is an island”?

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Did John Donne say “No man is an island”?

Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to John Donne. Source and location below.

Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me;
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel — John Donne, ¶607 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #23772 · source
"I started out to express in terms of strings and winds the emotions roused in me by the sight and thoughts of the Grass, much as LvB took a mistaken idealization of his youth as a startingpoint for Opus 55; but just as no man is an island, so no theme stands alone. There is a cord binding the lesser to the greater; a mystic union between all things. The Grass is not an entity, but an aspect. I th
Greener Than You Think — Ward Moore, ¶1508 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #24246 · source

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