“ By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them we relieve ourselves also. ”
- Thomas Browne Sr.- Copy
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“ All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker, and the connexion he must needs have unto heaven, who was the Sonne of God. For holding no dependence on any preceding efficient but God; in the act of his production there may be conceived some connexion, and Adam to have been in a moment all Navel with his Maker. And although from his carnality and corporal existence, the conjunction seemeth no nearer than of causality and effect; yet in his immortall and diviner part he seemed to hold a nearer coherence, and an umbilicality even with God himself. And so indeed although the propriety of this part be found but in some animals, and many species there are which have no Navell at all; yet is there one link and common connexion, one general ligament, and necessary obligation of all whatever unto God. Whereby although they act themselves at distance, and seem to be at loose; yet doe they hold a continuity with their Maker. Which catenation or conserving union when ever his pleasure shall divide, let goe, or separate, they shall fall from their existence, essence, and operations; in brief, they must retire unto their primitive nothing, and shrink into that Chaos again. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition; we live with death, and die not in a moment. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate? ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ”
- Thomas Browne- Copy
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