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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Thomas Browne

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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
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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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Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
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Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
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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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He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
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