Arms Quote by Thomas Browne

“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.”

Thomas Browne

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Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

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Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their…

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“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint…

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“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be…

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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

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Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in…

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Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

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“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for…

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

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Lord deliver me from myself.

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The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

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More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

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It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

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