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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
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Sir Thomas Browne
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Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.
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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
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