No man is an island

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No one is self-sufficient; everyone relies on others. This saying comes from a sermon by the seventeenth-century English author John Donne.

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Words nearby No man is an island

nomad, nomadic, nomadism, nomadize, No man can serve two masters, No man is an island, no man's land, nomarch, nomarchy, no-mark, no-mates

How to use No man is an island in a sentence

In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
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It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
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But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.
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He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.
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Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
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The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
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The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
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He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
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On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
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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.”