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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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Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.
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Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
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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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Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.
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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.
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What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
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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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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
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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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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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