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Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Sir Thomas Browne
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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
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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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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
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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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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
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If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.
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We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
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To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
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Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
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