Thomas Browne quotes
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“All the wonders you seek are within yourself.”
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“Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.”
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“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”
-- Thomas BrowneSource : 'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15
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“By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.”
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“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”
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“Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.”
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“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.”
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“It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.”
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“Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.”
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“Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.”
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“Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.”
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“Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.”
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“Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”
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“As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.”
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“Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”
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“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.”
-- Thomas BrowneSource : Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.176
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“No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.”
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“There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.”
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“The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.”
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“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
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“Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.”
-- Thomas BrowneSource : Sir Thomas Browne (1716). “Christian Morals”, p.10
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“I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.”
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“That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.”
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“Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...”
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“God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.”
-- Thomas Browne
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