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Thomas Browne quotes: We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers. We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
Thomas Browne quotes: Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us. Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Thomas Browne quotes: How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?
Thomas Browne quotes: Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive. Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
Thomas Browne quotes: What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle. What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
Thomas Browne quotes: The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying
Thomas Browne quotes: He is rich who hath enough to be charitable. He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
Thomas Browne quotes: Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man. Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
Thomas Browne quotes: The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself. The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
Thomas Browne quotes: Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
Thomas Browne quotes: It is we that are blind, not fortune. It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Thomas Browne quotes: Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.
Thomas Browne quotes: There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him. There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
Thomas Browne quotes: Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity. Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Thomas Browne quotes: Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it. Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.
Thomas Browne quotes: Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
Thomas Browne quotes: Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own. Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.
Thomas Browne quotes: To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun. To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
Thomas Browne quotes: Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Thomas Browne quotes: If reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion unto reason. If reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion unto reason.
Thomas Browne quotes: The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence. The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
Thomas Browne quotes: If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent. If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.
Thomas Browne quotes: Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Thomas Browne quotes: The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
Thomas Browne quotes: Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ... Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ...
Thomas Browne quotes: This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death. This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
Thomas Browne quotes: Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
Thomas Browne quotes: God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed. God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
Thomas Browne quotes: Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity. Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
Thomas Browne quotes: We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all disease. We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all disease.
Thomas Browne quotes: But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.
Thomas Browne quotes: For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches. For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
Thomas Browne quotes: Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
Thomas Browne quotes: He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).
Thomas Browne quotes: Festination may prove Precipitation;Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Thomas Browne quotes: Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth. Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
Thomas Browne quotes: They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
Thomas Browne quotes: I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen. I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.
Thomas Browne quotes: Oblivion is not to be hired. Oblivion is not to be hired.
Thomas Browne quotes: Every Country hath its Machiavel. Every Country hath its Machiavel.
Thomas Browne quotes: I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers. I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
Thomas Browne quotes: Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
Thomas Browne quotes: Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb. Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
Thomas Browne quotes: The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves. The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.
Thomas Browne quotes: They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man. They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.
Thomas Browne quotes: A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat. A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.
Thomas Browne quotes: I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
Thomas Browne quotes: Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist. Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.
Thomas Browne quotes: 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. 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.
Thomas Browne quotes: He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company. He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.
Thomas Browne quotes: There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Thomas Browne quotes: He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe. He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
Thomas Browne quotes: But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Thomas Browne quotes: Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers. Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.
Thomas Browne quotes: I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo. I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
Thomas Browne quotes: For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
Thomas Browne quotes: There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
Thomas Browne quotes: Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
Thomas Browne quotes: I have tried if I could reach that great resolution ... to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell. I have tried if I could reach that great resolution ... to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
Thomas Browne quotes: A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
Thomas Browne quotes: The man without a navel still lives in me. The man without a navel still lives in me.
Thomas Browne quotes: It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike. It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
Thomas Browne quotes: Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion. Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.
Thomas Browne quotes: Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner. Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner.
Thomas Browne quotes: There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
Thomas Browne quotes: Light is but the shadow of God. Light is but the shadow of God.
Thomas Browne quotes: We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life. We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
Thomas Browne quotes: To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Thomas Browne quotes: The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out. The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.
Thomas Browne quotes: Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Thomas Browne quotes: Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Thomas Browne quotes: Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.
Thomas Browne quotes: Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world. Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
Thomas Browne quotes: Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Thomas Browne quotes: Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God. Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne quotes: No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
Thomas Browne quotes: As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it. As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
Thomas Browne quotes: True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.
Thomas Browne quotes: As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Thomas Browne quotes: Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses. Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
Thomas Browne quotes: Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne quotes: To be content with death may be better than to desire it. To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
Thomas Browne quotes: We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Thomas Browne quotes: I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.
Thomas Browne quotes: By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Thomas Browne quotes: I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God. I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
Thomas Browne quotes: Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy. Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
Thomas Browne quotes: What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Thomas Browne quotes: Women do most delight in revenge. Women do most delight in revenge.
Thomas Browne quotes: Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne quotes: The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.
Thomas Browne quotes: Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example. Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.
Thomas Browne quotes: Think before you act; think twice before you speak. Think before you act; think twice before you speak.
Thomas Browne quotes: Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Thomas Browne quotes: We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow. We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
Thomas Browne quotes: Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
Thomas Browne quotes: Death is the cure for all diseases. Death is the cure for all diseases.
Thomas Browne quotes: The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span.
Thomas Browne quotes: No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
Thomas Browne quotes: I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles. I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

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