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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419694" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For whom the Bell Tolls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he <br> knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so <br> much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my <br> state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. The <br> church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she <br> does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action <br> concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which <br> is my head too, and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member. <br> And when she buries a man, that action concerns me: all mankind is <br> of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is <br> not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; <br> and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several <br> translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, <br> some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every <br> translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves <br> again for that library where every book shall lie open to one <br> another. As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon calls not <br> upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come, so this <br> bell calls us all; but how much more me, who am brought so near the <br> door by this sickness. There was a contention as far as a suit (in <br> which both piety and dignity, religion and estimation, were <br> mingled), which of the religious orders should ring to prayers <br> first in the morning; and it was determined, that they should ring <br> first that rose earliest. If we understand aright the dignity of <br> this bell that tolls for our evening prayer, we would be glad to <br> make it ours by rising early, in that application, that it might be <br> ours as well as his, whose indeed it is. The bell doth toll for him <br> that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that <br> minute that this occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God. <br> Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? but who takes <br> off his eye from a comet when that breaks out? Who bends not his <br> ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? but who can remove <br> it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this <br> world? No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece <br> of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by <br> the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as <br> well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's <br> death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and <br> therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for <br> thee. Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing <br> of misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but <br> must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the <br> misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness <br> if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath <br> enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and <br> ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man <br> carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none <br> coined into current money, his treasure will not defray him as he <br> travels. Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not <br> current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our <br> home, heaven, by it. Another man may be sick too, and sick to <br> death, and this affliction may lie in his bowels, as gold in a <br> mine, and be of no use to him; but this bell, that tells me of his <br> affliction, digs out and applies that gold to me: if by this <br> consideration of another's danger I take mine own into <br> contemplation, and so secure myself, by making my recourse to my <br> God, who is our only security.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</a><div class=q>
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