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1. "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
2. "Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us." ~ Thomas Browne
3. "By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also." ~ Thomas Browne
4. "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
5. "No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer." ~ Thomas Browne
6. "The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying" ~ Thomas Browne
7. "A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender." ~ Thomas Browne
8. "Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living." ~ Thomas Browne
9. "Death is the cure for all diseases." ~ Thomas Browne
10. "Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them." ~ Thomas Browne
11. "It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike." ~ Thomas Browne
12. "It is we that are blind, not fortune." ~ Thomas Browne
13. "Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good." ~ Thomas Browne
14. "To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy." ~ Thomas Browne
15. "We carry within us the wonders we seek without us." ~ Thomas Browne
16. "Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles." ~ Thomas Browne
17. "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself." ~ Thomas Browne
18. "As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason." ~ Thomas Browne
19. "Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks." ~ Thomas Browne
20. "Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion." ~ Thomas Browne
21. "We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases." ~ Thomas Browne
22. "Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous." ~ Thomas Browne
23. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." ~ Thomas Browne
24. "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." ~ Thomas Browne
25. "Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves." ~ Thomas Browne
26. "Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think not that Morality is Ambulatory; that Vices in one age are not Vices in another; or that Virtues, which are under the everlasting Seal of right Reason, may be Stamped by Opinion. And therefore though vicious times invert the opinion of things, and set up a new Ethicks against Virtue, yet hold thou unto old Morality; and rather than follow a multitude to do evil, stand like Pompey's pillar conspicuous by thyself, and single in Example of Virtue; since no Deluge of Vice is like to be so general but more than eight will escape; Eye well those Heroes who have held their Heads above Water, who have touched Pitch, and have not been defiled, and in the common Contagion have remained uncorrupted." ~ Thomas Browne
27. "That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be super-heresies, and Arians not onely divided from their Church, but also among themselves: for heads that are disposed unto Schisme...are naturally indisposed for a community, nor will ever be confined unto the order or oeconomy of one body; and therefore when they separate from others they knit but loosely among themselves; nor contented with a general breach or dichotomie with their Church, do subdivide and mince themselves almost into Atomes." ~ Thomas Browne
28. "The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span." ~ Thomas Browne
29. "We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all disease." ~ Thomas Browne
30. "This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death." ~ Thomas Browne

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