Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to…

Thomas Browne
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Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1831). Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings, p.82
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Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1831). Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings, p.82

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