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• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v...
• Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v...
• What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v...
• I look upon you as gem of the old rock.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial...
• 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...
• When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Vulgar Erro...
• The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. -- Sir Thomas Browne
• He hath riches sufficient, who hath enough to be charitable. -- Sir Thomas Browne
• Nature is the art of God. -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Religio Medici, Part i, Sect. xvi