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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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Sir Thomas Browne
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
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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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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
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God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
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Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.
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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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Oblivion is not to be hired.
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Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
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I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
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Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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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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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
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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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