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This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

Thomas Browne
This trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.

Thomas Browne
This triviall and vulgar way of coition; It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will deject his coold imagination, when hee shall consider what an odde and unworthy piece of folly hee hath committed.

Thomas Browne
We carry with us the wonders, we seek without us: There is all Africa, and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies, wisely learns in a compendium, what others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume.

Thomas Browne
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.

Thomas Browne
There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.

Thomas Browne
That great enemy of reason, virtue and religion, the multitude, that numerous piece of monstrosity, which taken asunder seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God; but confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

Thomas Browne
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

Thomas Browne