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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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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We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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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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Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
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Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
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As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
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I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
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Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.
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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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All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
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Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
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