Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
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Thomas Browne
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About Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science, medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the Scientific Revolution of Baconian enquiry and are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffused with melancholia, Browne's writings are als…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Thomas BrowneAll things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.