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Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

Thomas Browne

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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
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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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