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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Philosopher
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London
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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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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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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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By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
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Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
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He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
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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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I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
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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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