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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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Learning
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Community

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Every Country hath its Machiavel.
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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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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
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Festination may prove Precipitation Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
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Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
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He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
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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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For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital and a place not to live, but to die in.
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I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
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Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.
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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
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We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
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I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
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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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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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By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
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