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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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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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The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
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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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