It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes to behold felicity the first day of our Jubilee is deathThomas Browne
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.
Thomas Browne
There is no road or ready way to virtue.
Thomas Browne
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Thomas Browne
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
Thomas Browne
Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
Thomas Browne
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