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We vainly accuse the fury of guns, and the new inventions of death; it is in the power of every hand to destroy us, and we are beholden unto every one we meet he doth not kill us.

— Thomas Browne Religio Medici (1643)

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

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

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

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

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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.

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