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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
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Monopoly
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Learning

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God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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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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There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
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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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There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.
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With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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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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Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
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