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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
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To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
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What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
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Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
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There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.
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Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
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The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
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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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That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
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Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.
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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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