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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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God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
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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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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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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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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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I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
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