More from Sir Thomas Browne
- We do but learn what our better advanced judgement will unlearn tomorrow.
- Accept loss forever
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844
- A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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