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That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Physician
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
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The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
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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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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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For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital and a place not to live, but to die in.
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There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
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Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.
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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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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
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There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
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To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
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We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.
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Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
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I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
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Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
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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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Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
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