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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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Sir Thomas Browne
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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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That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
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