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• Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

  Thomas Browne

  Time, Body, Speak

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV”, p.435

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• That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

  Thomas Browne

  Improbable, Laughed

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.359

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• If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is 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

  Confused, Taken, Men

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 1

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