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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
Writer
London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Art
Nature
Perfection

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Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
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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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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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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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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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