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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

Thomas Browne

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Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
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Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
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London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Nature
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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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The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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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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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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Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
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I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
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There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
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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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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
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Festination may prove Precipitation Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
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