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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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Philosopher
Physician
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
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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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Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
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We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
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By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
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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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