Quote#Time
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and…
Quote byThomas Browne · 1605–1682
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to a Friend (circa 1656).
English (original)
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.
— Thomas Browne
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