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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
Perfection
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
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All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
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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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Oblivion is not to be hired.
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For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.
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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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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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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 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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I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
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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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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
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The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.
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I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.
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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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