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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
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For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
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Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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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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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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There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
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Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
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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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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.
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Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
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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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Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
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Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
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