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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 Religio Medici (1642)

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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.

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)

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