Thomas Browne Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Thomas Browne:

It is we that are blind, not fortune.
~Thomas Browne


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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
~Thomas Browne


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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
~Thomas Browne


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#e55bfdeb

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
~Thomas Browne


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#81fb427a

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
~Thomas Browne


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#95ef7ecb

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
~Thomas Browne


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#26405be6

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#09d1272e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#6661968f

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
~Thomas Browne


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#ee16bcd9

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.
~Thomas Browne


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#ce6331ae

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#e02d2eff

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
~Thomas Browne


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#b5a4c2f3

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
~Thomas Browne


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#4fd3338b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#92f3220e

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
~Thomas Browne


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#50476751

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#7c5d3a1f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#bbffddea

Death is the cure for all diseases.
~Thomas Browne


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#787ced61

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#aafadb4a

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.
~Thomas Browne


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/thomas-browne-quotes/#804a55cc

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