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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
Art
Nature
Perfection

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To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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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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For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
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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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Festination may prove Precipitation Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
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For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.
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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
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We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
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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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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
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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 is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
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There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
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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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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.
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