Sir Thomas Browne

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    “All is possible,
    Who so list believe;
    Trust therefore first, and after preve,
    As men wed ladies by license and leave,
    All is possible.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
    It’s fiftie fadom deip,
    And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
    Wi the Scots lords at his feit.”
    —Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 41–44)

    “Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”
    —18th century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

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