| 42 Famous Quotes by Sir Thomas Browne
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“I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.”
Ancestry Quotes Source: Dedication to Urn Burial
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“Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.”
Religion Quotes Source: Religio Medici (XXV)
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“Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.”
Haste Quotes Source: Christian Morals (pt. I, sec. XXIII), (paraphrasing Caesar)
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“Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection
of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there
were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another.
In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of
God.”
Art Quotes Source: Religio Medici (sec. 16)
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“What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he
hid himself among women.”
Deceit Quotes Source: Urn Burial (ch. V)
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“A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.”
Wisdom Quotes Source: Religion Medici, quoted as "That insolent paradox"
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“It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of
faces there should be none alike.”
Faces Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. II)
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“There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever
hath no beginning may be confident of no end.”
Immortality Quotes Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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“Women do most delight in revenge.”
Revenge Quotes Source: Christian Morals (part III, sec. XII)
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“The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].”
Charity Quotes Source: Religio Medici
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“The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.”
Eternity Quotes Source: Works (vol. III, p. 143), (Bohn's edition)
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“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
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“There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.”
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“Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult point, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion. Some believe the better for seeing Christ's Sepulchre, and when they have seen the Red Sea, doubt not the miracle. Now contrarily I bless myself, and am thankful that I lived not in the days of miracles, that I never saw Christ nor His Disciples; I would not have been one of those Israelites that passed the Red Sea, nor one of Christ's patients, on whom He wrought His wonders; then had my faith been thrust upon me, nor should I enjoy that greater blessing pronounced to all that believe and saw not.”
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“Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Continuing a series on God and the human condition: If we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists; divinity will still call us heathens. Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetoric of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition, for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason.”
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“Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, ... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency... Life is pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.”
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“Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.”
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