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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and D...

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It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Religio Medici; And Other Writings

I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse.

Religio Medici

All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker...

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Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Prose: "Religio Medici"

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to depriv...

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The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to pros...

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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

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Thomas Browne

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Born: 1605-10-19

Died: 1682-10-19

Sir Thomas Browne, MD (19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English author of varied works which disclose his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric.More