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For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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London
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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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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
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The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
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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.
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Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.
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To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
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There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.
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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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