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Religio Medici
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It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.
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We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
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A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.
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Sleep is a death, O make me try
By sleeping, what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.
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Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.
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Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
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I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
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Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.
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There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.
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Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.
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I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
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Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.
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To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
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The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
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There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
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By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
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Not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.
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I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.
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I dare, without usurpation, assume the honorable style of a Christian.
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There is surely a peece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.
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For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.
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Art is the perfection of nature…nature is the art of God.
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We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits which are the house of life.
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As for those wingy mysteries in divinity and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith.
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Born:
October 19, 1605
Died:
October 19, 1682
(aged 77)
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