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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
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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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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
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But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
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Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.
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To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
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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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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.
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Think not silence the wisdom of fools but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
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The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
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We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
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