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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.
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Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
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Festination may prove Precipitation Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
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There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
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There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.
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There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.
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As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
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The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.
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