Thomas Browne Quotes
17 Thomas Browne quotes:
"Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven."
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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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"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."
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"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."
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"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."
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"Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good."
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"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."
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"To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy."
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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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"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
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"There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures."
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"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."
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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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"It is we that are blind, not fortune."
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"Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous."
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"Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich."
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