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The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

Thomas Browne
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Thomas Browne's Popular Quotes

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how…

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All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

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Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

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Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

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Every Country hath its Machiavel.

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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

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Light is but the shadow of God.

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

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