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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.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
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Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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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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Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.
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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
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There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.
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I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
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Oblivion is not to be hired.
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
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