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Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.

Approximate author period: c. 1643 AD · renaissance

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Sir Thomas Browne
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Approximate author period: c. 1643 AD · renaissance
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Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)

Printed page 43 · quotation 9 · Sir Thomas Browne · Religio Medici. Sec. 16

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