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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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To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
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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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Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
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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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Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
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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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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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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
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He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
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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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