Thomas Browne Quotes

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• All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

  Thomas Browne

  Bullying, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

  Thomas Browne

  Thinking, Speak, Think Before You Act

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• Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

  Thomas Browne

  Thinking, Rich, Dies

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• Light is but the shadow of God.

  Thomas Browne

  Light, Shadow

  'The Garden of Cyrus' (1658) ch. 4

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• We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

  Thomas Browne

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Journey

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15

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• Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, May, Pebbles

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• Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

  Thomas Browne

  Wrinkles, Envy, Age

  Sir Thomas Browne (1716). “Christian Morals”, p.10

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• Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

  Thomas Browne

  Being Alone, Self, Solitude

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.176

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• To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, Arrows, Evil

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.131

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• There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

  Thomas Browne

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• The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

  Thomas Browne

  World, Eternity, Parentheses

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.194

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• I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

  Thomas Browne

  Adversity, Men, Alive

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• The religion of one seems madness unto another.

  Thomas Browne

  Statistics, Madness, Seems

  Sir Thomas Browne (1658). “Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths”

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• For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Science, World

  Religio Medici pt. 2, sec. 11 (1643)

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• Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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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.

  Thomas Browne

  Time, Thinking, Long

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.194

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• I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Differences, Justice

  Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.10

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• Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Death, Warrior

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.82

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• No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Judgement, Knows

  Sir Thomas Browne (1736). “Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Or, the Christian Religion, as Professed by a Physician; Freed from Priest-craft and the Jargon of Schools”, p.84

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• Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

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  Fancy, Reason, Humour

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.333

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• Light is the shadow of God.

  Thomas Browne

  Light, Shadow

  Sir Thomas Browne (2012). “Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall”, p.152, New York Review of Books

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• For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

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  Order, May, Spheres

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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• By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

  Thomas Browne

  Sadness, Compassion, Misery

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas Chapman (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.114

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• All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

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  God, Art, Nature

  Religio Medici pt. 1, sec. 16 (1643)

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• Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

  Thomas Browne

  Age, Habit, Rectify

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4”, p.61

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