Thomas Browne Quotes

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• We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
• All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
• Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
• Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
• Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
• Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.
• I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me…
• Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.
• 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…
• Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
• Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
• It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
• 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…
• 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.
• Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
• He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
• It is we that are blind, not fortune.
• Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
• Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

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