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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence Quotes

“To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.”

“Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?”

“With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.”

“Oblivion is not to be hired.”

“Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.”

“Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.”

“To be content with death may be better than to desire it.”

“Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.”

“Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.”