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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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England
Sir Thomas Browne
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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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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We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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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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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
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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 could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.
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The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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