Quotes by Thomas Browne

• Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
• Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
• A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
• All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
• As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
• Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
• Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
• 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.
• We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
• It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
• It is we that are blind, not fortune.
• To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
• 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.
• We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
• Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
• 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.
• Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
• Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
• Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.