Sir Thomas Browne

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    “I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman ... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.”
    —Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)

    “I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret;
    The code of night tapped on my tongue;
    What had been one was many sounding minded.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.”
    —Thomas Browne (1605–1682)