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Sir Thomas Browne foi um escritor inglês do século XVII.

Em 1646 propôs a que as cargas poderiam conceber forças repulsivas. Naquele momento da história das Ciências, predominava a ideia da existência somente de forças atratívas entre cargas. Isto pode ser visto na publicação "De Magnete" de Willian Guilbert . Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Outubro 1605 – 19. Outubro 1682
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Thomas Browne Frases famosas

“Todas as maravilhas que você precisa estão dentro de você.”

Thomas Browne

“Porque não considero o mundo como uma hospedaria, mas como um hospital; não como um lugar para se viver, mas para morrer.”

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“Aristóteles, enquanto se esforça para refutar as ideias de Platão, acaba por atacar a si mesmo: pois seu "summum bonum" é uma quimera, e sua Felicidade é uma coisa que não existe.”

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“A graça do homem rico diverte sempre.”

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“A multidão: esse enorme pedaço de monstruosidade que, considerada a partir dos seus elementos, parece feita de homens e das criaturas sensatas de Deus; mas, considerada como um todo, forma uma enorme besta e uma monstruosidade mais horrível do que Hidra.”

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Thomas Browne: Frases em inglês

“Sleep is a death; oh, 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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Thomas Browne livro Religio Medici

Section 12
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

“To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun”

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Letter to a Friend (circa 1656)

“To keep our eyes open longer were but to set our Antipodes. The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and as some conjecture all shall awake again?”

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Thomas Browne livro The Garden of Cyrus

Fonte: The Garden of Cyrus (1658), Ch. 5

“Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables.”

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Thomas Browne livro Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Fonte: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V

“To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.”

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Thomas Browne livro Christian Morals

Part III, Section XII
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.”

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Thomas Browne livro Religio Medici

Section 45
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

“Pursue Virtue virtuously.”

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These words also appear in Christian Morals, Part I, Section I
Letter to a Friend (circa 1656)

“To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.”

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Thomas Browne livro Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Fonte: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V

“Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.”

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Thomas Browne livro Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Dedication
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)

“But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world, yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his own executioner.”

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Thomas Browne livro Religio Medici

Section 4
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

“It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.”

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Thomas Browne livro Religio Medici

Section 2
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

“How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.”

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Thomas Browne livro Religio Medici

Section 48
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”

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Thomas Browne livro Christian Morals

Part III, Section XXIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.”

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Thomas Browne livro Christian Morals

Part I, Section XIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“Who will not commend the wit of astrology? Venus, born out of the sea, hath her exaltation in Pisces.”

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Commonplace notebooks, Part I

“Burden not the back of Aries, Leo, or Taurus, with thy faults, nor make Saturn, Mars, or Venus, guilty of thy Follies.”

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Thomas Browne livro Christian Morals

Part III, Section VII
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.”

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Thomas Browne livro Religio Medici

Section 6
Religio Medici (1643), Part I