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Live Quotes by Thomas Browne
- Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
- For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
- To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told…
- Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
- Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
- Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
- But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of…
- Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own…
- And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy…
- Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
- Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided…
- Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.
- I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
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- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach