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Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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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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With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of 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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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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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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