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Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
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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Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.
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There are no grotesques in nature not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
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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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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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Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.
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Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
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Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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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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We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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