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Sir Thomas Browne

Feelings
The hottest love has the coldest end.
4.9 · 6 votes · 75 reads
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Nature
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
4.3 · 5 votes · 151 reads
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Thought and Reason
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
3.1 · 52 votes · 190 reads
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Time
The unexamined life is not worth living.
3.8 · 39 votes · 188 reads
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Time
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
3.5 · 61 votes · 106 reads
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Thought and Reason
There is only one good - knowledge; and only one evil - ignorance.
4.6 · 44 votes · 114 reads
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Various
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
4.1 · 45 votes · 25 reads
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Virtues
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
4.7 · 24 votes · 153 reads
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Nature
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew q
4.6 · 39 votes · 194 reads
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Thought and Reason
To find yourself, think for yourself.
4.1 · 50 votes · 80 reads
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Virtues
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
3.2 · 54 votes · 149 reads
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Defects
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
3.9 · 44 votes · 78 reads
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Virtues
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wis
4.9 · 47 votes · 165 reads
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Society
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
4.1 · 14 votes · 103 reads
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Feelings
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
3.7 · 26 votes · 109 reads
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Various
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
4.4 · 25 votes · 43 reads
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Nature
Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
3.3 · 31 votes · 82 reads
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