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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.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
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Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
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For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.
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Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
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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 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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What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
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I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
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