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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.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
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Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
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I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
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Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
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Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
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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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Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.
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We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.
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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
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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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