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no man is an island
no man is an island
Human beings necessarily depend on one another, as in You can't manage this all by yourself; no man is an island. This expression is a quotation from John Donne's Devotions (1624): "No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main."
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Vince | | VINTS (English), VEEN-tse (Hungarian) | English, Hungarian |
Perry | | ['peri] | |
Hene | | - | Yiddish |
Takis | | - | Greek |
Eleanor | | ['elinə] | |
Keir | | - | Scottish, English (Rare) |