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To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
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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.
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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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Women do most delight in revenge.
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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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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 the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital and a place not to live, but to die in.
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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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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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Oblivion is not to be hired.
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He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
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Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
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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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Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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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 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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