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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
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London
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To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
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There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.
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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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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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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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If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.
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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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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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For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
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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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I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
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