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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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Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
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Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.
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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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Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
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Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.
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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
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By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
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All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
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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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There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.
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