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May Quotes by Thomas Browne
- Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
- 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…
- Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
- There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our…
- To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
- Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
- . . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to…
- A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
- 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…
- Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...
- Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue…
- There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
- There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered…
- Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity,…
- Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt