33 Quotations by Sir Thomas Browne
- 1. A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
- 2. All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
- 3. As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
- 4. Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
- 5. Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
- 6. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without ...
- 7. Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari ...
- 8. Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping m ...
- 9. Death is the cure for all diseases.
- 10. Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
- 11. He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
- 12. I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any w ...
- 13. I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his jud ...
- 14. It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the trues ...
- 15. It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
- 16. It is we that are blind, not fortune.
- 17. Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
- 18. Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.
- 19. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
- 20. Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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