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)

    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)

    The insect certain is the plague of fables.
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

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