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"20 Thomas Browne Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 19 October 1605. Died: 19 October 1682 | Polymath | Author |

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

We carry Within us Wonders Seek
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Life Shadow Death Souls
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Let age Envy Draw wrinkles Cheeks
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Rough diamonds Mistaken Worthless pebbles
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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.

Happiest man Alive Convert poverty Riches
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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Death Cure All diseases
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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.

The power Weakest man Take away Life
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Men live Reason Sovereignty Humor
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To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Believe Possibilities Faith Philosophy
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Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Life Pure flame Live Invisible sun
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

All things Artificial Nature God
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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Reason Rebel Faith Passion
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Blind Not fortune
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

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

Be able Alone Advantage Solitude
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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Be charitable Wealth Covetous
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I make not therefore my head a grave, but a treasure, of knowledge; I intend no Monopoly, but a community, in learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Head Grave Treasure Monopoly
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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Approach Temple Science Soul
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The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span.

Created world Parenthesis Relating Life span
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This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death

Reasonable moderator Justice Death
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Thomas Browne Quotes & Sayings