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Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
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I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.
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Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
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Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.
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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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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.
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All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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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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