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• Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
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• What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
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• Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,--when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial...
• Nature is the art of God. -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Religio Medici, Part i, Sect. xvi
• There is no road or ready way to virtue. -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Religio Medici, Part i, Sect.
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• The thousand doors that lead to death. -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Religio Medici, Part i, Sect.
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• The heart of man is the place the Devil 's in: I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
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