Thomas Browne Quotes

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• Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have… Angel
• To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy. Believe
• I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers. Admired
• Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. Enemies
• . . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to… Amazed
• A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. Cities
• The religion of one seems madness unto another. Inspirational
• True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. Affection
• As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. Faith
• Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth. Earth
• That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny; but I have no confidence… Been
• Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. Dare
• Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses. Affection
• I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial… Act
• Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. Apprehended
• Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint. Almost Every
• All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks… According
• Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. Die
• Light is the shadow of God. God
• The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. Adhesion

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