Sir Thomas Browne

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.

— Sir Thomas Browne

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

— Sir 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.

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Sir Thomas Browne

Death is the cure for all diseases.

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Sir Thomas Browne

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Sir Thomas Browne

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Sir Thomas Browne

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Sir Thomas Browne

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

— Sir Thomas Browne

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.

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Sir Thomas Browne

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

— Sir Thomas Browne

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.

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Sir Thomas Browne