| 42 Famous Quotes by Sir Thomas Browne
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“God is like a skilful Geometrician.”
God Quotes Source: Religio Medici I (16)
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“When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are
spoken under the rose.
- Sir Thomas Browne,”
Secrecy Quotes Source: Vulgar Errors--Of speaking Under the Rose--Pseudodoxia (5, 23)
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“Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent.
[Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving
friends are held in strict silence.]”
Secrecy Quotes Source: Vulgar Errors--Of speaking Under the Rose--Pseudodoxia (5, 23)
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“To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.”
Deeds Quotes Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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“Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.”
Grave Quotes Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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“He that unburied lies wants not his hearse,
For unto him a tomb's the Universe.”
Grave Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, sec. XLI)
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“Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost
lost that built it.”
Fame Quotes Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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“Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was
unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from
it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's
ashes.”
Monuments Quotes Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. III)
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“To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray
for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our
expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction
to our belief.”
Monuments Quotes Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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“Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the
grave.”
Man Quotes Source: Urn Burial (ch. V)
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“Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.”
Comparisons Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, sec. 21)
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“The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the
invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in
equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in
that invisible fabric.”
World Quotes Source: Religio Medici
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“Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is
not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in
eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a
state of duration as was before it and may be after it.”
Time Quotes Source: Christian Morals (pt. III, XXIX)
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“Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men
above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis
best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent
spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves
an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.”
Argument Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, VI)
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“Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as
trophies unto the enemies of truth.”
Errors Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, sec. VI)
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“Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.”
Sleep Quotes Source: Hydriotaphia
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“Sleep is a death, O make me try,
By sleeping, what it is to die:
And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.”
Sleep Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. XII)
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“Rich with the spoils of nature.”
Nature Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. XIII)
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“There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up
empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.”
Nature Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. XV)
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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.”
Nature Quotes Source: Religio Medici (sec. 16)
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“Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own
executioner.”
Enemies Quotes Source: Religio Medici
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“And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note
which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument;
for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or
proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the
spheres.”
Music Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. IX)
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“The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel
sometimes a hell dwells within myself.”
Hell Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, sec. LI)
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“I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.”
Friends Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. V)
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“Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to
engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more
easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I
can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and
within the circle of another.”
Friends Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. V)
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