`` no man is an island , intire of its self ; every man is a piece of the continent , a part of the maine ; if a clod bee washed away by the sea , europe is the lesse , as well as if a promontorie were ; as well as if a mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were ; any mans death diminishes me , because i am involved in mankinde ; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls ; it tolls for thee . ''