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The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Think not silence the wisdom of fools but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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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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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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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
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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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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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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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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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Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
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Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
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That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
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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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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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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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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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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
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