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I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
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Friends
Soul
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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
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Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
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Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.
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