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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.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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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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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
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Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
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Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
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Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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