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There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
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He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
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Think not silence the wisdom of fools but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
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I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
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As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
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All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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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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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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Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
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There are no grotesques in nature not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
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