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  2. No Man Is an Island - Wikipedia

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    No Man Is an Island may refer to: "No man is an island", originally "No man is an Iland", a famous line from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a 1624 prose work by English poet John Donne; No Man Is an Island 1962 war film; No Man Is an Island the 1972 debut album from reggae singer Dennis Brown; No Man Is an Island, a 1955 book by the ...

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Nine tailors make a man, No friends but the mountains [22] No guts, no glory; No man can serve two masters; No man is an island; No names, no pack-drill; No news is good news; No one can make you feel inferior without your consent; No pain, no gain; No rest for the wicked

  4. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions - Wikipedia

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    John Donne, aged about 42. Donne was born in 1572 to a wealthy ironmonger and a warden of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and his wife Elizabeth. [2] After his father's death when he was four, Donne was trained as a gentleman scholar; his family used the money his father had made to hire tutors who taught him grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, history and foreign languages.

  5. Nomanisan Island - Wikipedia

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    Nomanisan Island and Nomansan Island are puns on the famous quote by John Donne, "No man is an Iland " (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 1624). It may refer to: It may refer to: Nomanisan Island in Lake Kittamaqundi in Columbia, Maryland, which became a peninsula in 2011

  6. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Wikipedia

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    No man is an Island, intire of it selfe; 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 ...

  7. John Donne - Wikipedia

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    A portrait of Donne as a young man, c. 1595, in the National Portrait Gallery, London [5] Donne was born in London in 1571 or 1572, [a] into a recusant Roman Catholic family when practice of that religion was illegal in England. [6] Donne was the third of six children. His father, also named John Donne, was married to Elizabeth Heywood.

  8. No Man Is an Island (film) - Wikipedia

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    No Man Is an Island is a 1962 war film about the exploits of George Ray Tweed, a United States Navy radioman who avoided capture and execution by the Japanese during their years-long World War II occupation of Guam. It stars Jeffrey Hunter as Tweed.

  9. James S. Holmes - Wikipedia

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    James Stratton Holmes (2 May 1924 – 6 November 1986) was an American-Dutch poet, translator, and translation scholar. [1] He sometimes published his work using his real name James S. Holmes, and other times the pen names Jim Holmes and Jacob Lowland.