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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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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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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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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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Think not silence the wisdom of fools but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
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Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.
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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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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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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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Festination may prove Precipitation Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
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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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The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.
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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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