"He that unburied lies wants not his hearse,……" — Thomas Browne
"He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe."
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Thomas Browne
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137 Quotes by Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne has 137 quotes on this site.
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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.
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I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment…
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Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.
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Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the…
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Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
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More Graves Quotes
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the…
— Francis Bacon
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
— Abigail Adams
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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
— Henry Adams
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where…
— Marek Belka
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Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
— Berkeley Breathed
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
— Georg Buchner
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