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"Rich with the spoils of Nature."
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Thomas BrowneA Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of thi — Thomas Browne
"A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Platos Den, and are but Embryon Philosophers."
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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 hi
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"There is no road or ready way to virtue."
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"They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another."
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"Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives."
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"Aristotle whilst he labours to refute the ideas of Plato, falls upon one himself: for his summum bonum, is a Chimera, and there is no such thing as his Felicity."
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"I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar act of coition; It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed."
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