92 result(s) for Thomas Browne Quotes.
"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it."
"I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business."
"What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture."
"We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."
"There’s not only a delight in enjoying but a lingering, indivisible pleasure in remembering the past. It was but a thin delight, and lasted only in the present tense."
"Rough diamond natures are preferable in many cases to smooth and brilliant ones."
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"Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner."
"I am not Afraid to Die, But I am not Yet Ready."
"Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner."
"We know the original relation of the sexes, and know that they were promiscuously and indivisibly united, and that they were not designed, in coming together, to create new beings, but to produce their resemblances."
"The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge."
"There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun."
"To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days."
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
"To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy."
"He who is well prepared, has half won the battle."
"Every man truly lives, so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties of himself."
"They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will die."
"I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof."
"There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls."
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"But life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us."
"Death is the Lucina of life."
"The wise man is content with his present condition, and spends his time in mirth and pastime, when he can, and when he cannot, labours diligently."
"It is a desire to do something of lasting value. It is to live with a purpose, to forge not only a living, but a life."
"I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity."
"I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself."
"Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."
"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."
"To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting rememberances."
"Laughter is, in general, the sign of a generous heart; sometimes of stupidity; oftentimes of folly."
"In heaven there are two loves, amor concupiscentiae, love of concupiscence, desire, that so inflames us here, by which parents love their children, men their mistresses — a good, desirable, and lawful love; and amor amicitiae, friendship, love of souls, that purely and sincerely joins them."
"To be well employed is to be kept from the tempter."
"Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were his own executioner."
"We carry with us the wonders we seek without us."
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"Never go to bed to fear or anger."
"I am verily persuaded the Lord knows few men's secrets in this present state; they are safe with him to whom they are hid."
"Choose the safest course: no one ever repents of having taken it."
"Charity is the scope of all God's commands."
"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave."
"By ignorance is pride increased; those most assume who know the least."
"Time is the greatest innovator; nothing is worn out by time."
"The whole creation is a mystery and wonders of eternal love."
"To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature."
"The quenchless stars, so eloquent and pure, and the all-awakening sun."
"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."
"I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Achilles; fortune hath not one place to hit me."
"We carry our homes within us, which enables us to fly."
"Ridicule is the best test of truth."
"Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy."
"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."
"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."
"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike."
"Time, which sees all things, has found you out."
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
"Every man is his greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner."
"By ignorance is pride increased; they most assume who know the least."
"In heaven, it is always autumn."
"To do a great right, do a little wrong."
"There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way."
"But our words will not be heard, nor our philosophy regarded, in that other world."
"Nature is the art of God."
"By the knowledge of mine own inseparable and individual soul, I have no fear of the future."
"Time is the measure of business, as money is of wares."
"An honest man is the noblest work of God."
"To lament that we long for happiness is to express not the want, but the abundance of it."
"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us."
"By how much we ought to be afraid of death, by so much should we fear the torments of life."
"Chance makes a plaything of a man’s life."
"Virtue is the fount whence honour springs."
"I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers."
"Those very hairs which you see growing upon the eyebrows of young people, which they allow to stream out in their wild luxuriance, uncut, not combed, peradventure not even separated by the finger, bear the most scathing condemnation of irreligion."
"As the wings of Pyramus and Thesby made actions, and 'admirable gestures up and down', so have the wings and legs of grasshoppers made the very bones of musician’s instruments, doing strange caprioles and antic dances."
"By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also."
"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."
"We carry within us the wonders we seek around us."
"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."
"To despise our species is the price our pride must pay."
"Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world: Yet is every man his greatest enemy."
"Let the power of nobility pass from me to my posterity."
"The world is like a great chessboard, with human destinies for pawns."
"Time is the greatest innovator."
"Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living."
"There is no road or ready way to virtue."
"It is excellently observed by Plato that Timaeus platonizeth in this dialogue of his, and Timaeus also platonizeth in the dialogue of his master - which is made of black beans."
"It is the common wonder of all men how among so many million of faces, there should be none alike."
"Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us."
"It is a great presumption to slight our elders and condemn to death antiquity."
"We carry the seeds of our happiness within us."
"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."
"The soul of the world is a wise silence and a vast darkness."
"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."
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