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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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To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
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Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
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Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
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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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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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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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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
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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 the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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