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Thomas Browne Quote: “It is we that are blind, not fortune.”

151. “It is we that are blind, not fortune.”

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Thomas Browne Quote: “The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical or composed of letters, but of their several forms, constitutions, parts and operations, which, aptly joined together, do make one word that doth express their natures.”

152. “The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical or composed of letters, but of their several forms, constitutions, parts and operations, which, aptly joined together, do make one word that doth express their natures.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.”

153. “Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.”

154. “He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.”

155. “Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.”

156. “Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.”

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Thomas Browne Quote: “Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.”

157. “Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “Every Country hath its Machiavel.”

158. “Every Country hath its Machiavel.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “What virtue yet sleeps in this terra damnata and aged cinders, were petty magic to experiment. These crumbling relicks and long fired particles superannuate such expectations; bones, hairs, nails, and teeth of the dead, were the treasures of old sorcerers.”

159. “What virtue yet sleeps in this terra damnata and aged cinders, were petty magic to experiment. These crumbling relicks and long fired particles superannuate such expectations; bones, hairs, nails, and teeth of the dead, were the treasures of old sorcerers.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.”

160. “Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.”

161. “Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “Where we desire to be informed ’tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, ’tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.”

162. “Where we desire to be informed ’tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, ’tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.”

163. “They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “To be knav’d out of our graves, to have our skulls made drinking-bowls, and our bones turned into pipes, to delight and sport our enemies, are tragical abominations escaped in burning burials.”

164. “To be knav’d out of our graves, to have our skulls made drinking-bowls, and our bones turned into pipes, to delight and sport our enemies, are tragical abominations escaped in burning burials.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “There is in those workes of nature, which seeme to puzle reason, something Divine, and that hath more in it then the eye of a common spectator doth discover.”

165. “There is in those workes of nature, which seeme to puzle reason, something Divine, and that hath more in it then the eye of a common spectator doth discover.”

— Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne Quote: “Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.”

166. “Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.”

— Thomas Browne

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