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How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy. (Thomas Browne)
Who will not commend the wit of astrology? Venus, born out of the sea, hath her exaltation in Pisces. View quote
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Burden not the back of Aries, Leo, or Taurus, with thy faults, nor make Saturn, Mars, or Venus, guilty of thy Follies. View quote
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. View quote
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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. View quote
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. View quote
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. View quote
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There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. View quote
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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. View quote
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Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. View quote
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It is we that are blind, not fortune. (Thomas Browne)
There is surely a Physiognomy, which those experienced and Master Mendicants observe... For there are mystically in our faces certain Characters that carry in them the motto of our Souls, wherein he that cannot read A. B. C. may read our natures. View quote
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That children dream not the first half year, that men dream not in some countries, with many more, are unto me sick men's dreams, dreams out of the Ivory gate, and visions before midnight. View quote
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Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses. View quote
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To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. View quote
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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? Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. View quote
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. View quote
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All the wonders you seek are within yourself. View quote
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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. View quote
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All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven. View quote
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God is like a skilful Geometrician. (Thomas Browne)
There is another man within me that's angry with me. View quote
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They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man. View quote
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He hath riches sufficient, who hath enough to be charitable. View quote
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Every Country hath its Machiavel. View quote
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