Sir Thomas Browne

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    “O Ye that put your trust and confidence
    In worldly joy and frail prosperity,
    That so live here as ye should never hence,
    Remember death and look here upon me.”
    —Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)

    “Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”
    —Robin, Sir Day (b. 1915)

    “Hell in a horn of sulphur and the cloven myth,
    All heaven in a midnight of the sun,
    A serpent fiddled in the shaping-time.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
    —Thomas Browne (1605–1682)