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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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Community

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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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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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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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Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.
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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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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
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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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I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.
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Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
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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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There are no grotesques in nature not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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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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