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, by Sir Thomas Browne , Source: Vulgar Errors--Of speaking Under the Rose--Pseudodoxia (5, 23)
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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.
Nature
Quotes, by Sir Thomas Browne
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There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up
empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
Nature
Quotes, by Sir Thomas Browne , Source: Religio Medici (pt. XV)
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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, by Sir Thomas Browne , Source: Vulgar Errors--Of speaking Under the Rose--Pseudodoxia (5, 23)
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He that unburied lies wants not his hearse,
For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
Grave
Quotes, by Sir Thomas Browne , 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, by Sir Thomas Browne , 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, by Sir Thomas Browne , 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, by Sir Thomas Browne , Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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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, by Sir Thomas Browne , 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, by Sir Thomas Browne , 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, by Sir Thomas Browne , 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, by Sir Thomas Browne , Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, sec. VI)
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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, by Sir Thomas Browne , Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. XII)
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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, by Sir Thomas Browne , Source: Religio Medici (sec. 16)
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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, by Sir Thomas Browne , 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, by Sir Thomas Browne , Source: Religio Medici (pt. I, sec. LI)
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