"There is surely a piece of divinity in……" — Thomas Browne
"There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun."
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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 Divinity Quotes
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a…
— Henry Adams
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Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of…
— Roseanne Barr
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own…
— Bruce Barton
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
— William Blake
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
— Phillips Brooks
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his…
— Samuel Butler
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Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity…
— Alan Cohen
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Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who…
— J. Reuben Clark
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Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my…
— Pindar
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In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had…
— Lee Strobel
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