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I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

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
Intend
Monopoly
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Learning
Study
Community

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Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
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God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
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We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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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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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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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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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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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
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But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
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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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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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We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
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I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
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