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One Quotes by Thomas Browne
- Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.
- Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure…
- Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and…
- 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…
- If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and…
- The religion of one seems madness unto another.
- True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.
- They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
- 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…
- I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable…
- No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle