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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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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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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
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I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
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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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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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Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
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I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
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Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.
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For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital and a place not to live, but to die in.
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