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What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

— Thomas Browne Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)

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There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

Religio Medici (1643)

There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.

Religio Medici (1643)

The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.

Religio Medici (1643)

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

Religio Medici (1643)

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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