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Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Sir Thomas Browne
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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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All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
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There are no grotesques in nature not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
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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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