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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 |
Ji-Yeong | | jee-yung | Korean |
Eidel | | - | Yiddish |
Valeri | | vah-LYE-ree (Russian) | Bulgarian, Georgian, Russian |
Katja | | KAHT-yah (German, Dutch) | German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Slovene |
Cynthia | | ['sinθjə] | |
Morana | | - | Slavic Mythology, Croatian |