Sir Thomas Browne
» Charity » “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.”
» Charity » “Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.”
» Death and Dying » “Death is the cure for all diseases.”
» Death and Dying » “Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.”
» Death and Dying » “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.”
» Death and Dying » “We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
» Envy » “Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.”
» Eyes » “It is we that are blind, not fortune.”
» Faces » “It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.”
» Faith » “To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.”
» Fame » “But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.”
» Hatred » “Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.”
» Nature » “Nature is the art of God.”
» Nature » “All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
» Obstinacy » “Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”
» Passion » “Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.”
» Potential » “Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”
» Procreation » “I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.”
» Reason » “As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.”
» Repentance » “Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.”
» Sleep » “We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.”
» Truth » “A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.”
