Quotes by Browne, Sir Thomas

"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."

Browne, Sir Thomas on envy
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"It is we that are blind, not fortune."

Browne, Sir Thomas on eyes   

"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike."

Browne, Sir Thomas on faces   

"To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy."

Browne, Sir Thomas on faith
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"But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity."

Browne, Sir Thomas on fame   

"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."

Browne, Sir Thomas on hatred
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"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."

Browne, Sir Thomas on nature   

"Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good."

Browne, Sir Thomas on obstinacy   

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"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."

Browne, Sir Thomas on passion
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"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."

Browne, Sir Thomas on potential
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"I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition."

Browne, Sir Thomas on creation   

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"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."

Browne, Sir Thomas on reason
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"Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven."

Browne, Sir Thomas on repentance   

"We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers."

Browne, Sir Thomas on sleep   

"Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner."

Browne, Sir Thomas on charity   

"Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous."

Browne, Sir Thomas on charity   

"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."

Browne, Sir Thomas on truth   

"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."

Browne, Sir Thomas on death
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"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

Browne, Sir Thomas on death   

"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."

Browne, Sir Thomas on death   

"Death is the cure for all diseases."

Browne, Sir Thomas on death