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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
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
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Oblivion is not to be hired.
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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
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Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
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Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
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That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
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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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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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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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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.
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What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
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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 royal road or ready way to virtue.
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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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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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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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