Meditations for today

Librivox has an audio of John Donne's meditations when he was ill with a prolonged fever. (probably typhus or typhoid).

This chapter contains the famous phrase

 No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know
for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.