Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not …

Thomas Browne
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Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1844). Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals, p.194
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