Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no s…

Thomas Browne
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Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1869). Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend, p.185
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Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1869). Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend, p.185

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