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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
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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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Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
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Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
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Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.
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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
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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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