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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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Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
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Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
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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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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
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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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Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
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Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.
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The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
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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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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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There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.
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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 tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
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To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
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Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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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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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
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