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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
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Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
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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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But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
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I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
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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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Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.
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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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