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Women do most delight in revenge.
Thomas Browne
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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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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
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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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Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
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There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
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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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