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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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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
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God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.
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Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
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There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.
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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
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