"Now with my friend I desire not to……" — Thomas Browne
"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 easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another."
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Thomas Browne
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137 Quotes by Thomas Browne
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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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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect;…
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical…
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the…
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we…
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung…
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You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
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