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• No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

  Thomas Browne

  Science, Soul, Temples

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• The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

  Thomas Browne

  Laughing, Vices, Virtue

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.183

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• I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

  Thomas Browne

  Honesty, Heaven, Hell

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 47.

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• Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

  Thomas Browne

  Faith, Philosophy, Believe

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 48.

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• There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

  Thomas Browne

  Character, Way, Royal

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• I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Past, Hours

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.61

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• He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

  Thomas Browne

  Money, Wealth, Rich

  Sir Thomas Browne (1872). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.151

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• Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

  Thomas Browne

  Causes, Stubbornness, Obstinacy

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 25

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• Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

  Thomas Browne

  Mind, Pace, Riches

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• Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

  Thomas Browne

  Heart, Keys, Locks

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.259

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

  Thomas Browne

  Hate, Evil, Hatred

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.131

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• Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

  Thomas Browne

  Envy, Dumb, Debt

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.152

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• Lord deliver me from myself.

  Thomas Browne

  Self, Lord

  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.95

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• Festination may prove Precipitation;
  Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Procrastination, Haste

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals”, p.278

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• Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

  Thomas Browne

  Shadow Of Death, Soul, Departed

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

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• A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.345

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• It is we that are blind, not fortune.

  Thomas Browne

  Eye, Blind, Fortune

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas CHAPMAN (of Exeter College, Oxford.) (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.36

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• Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

  Thomas Browne

  Health, Men, Thinking

  Sir Thomas Browne (1839). “Religio Medici”, p.80

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• There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Sound, Silent

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

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• I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

  Thomas Browne

  Real, Soul, New Friendship

  Sir Thomas Browne (1872). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.129

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• And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

  Thomas Browne

  Taken, Men, Years

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.79

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• Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

  Thomas Browne

  Running, Men, Life Is

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.50

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• The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

  Thomas Browne

  Theatre

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.205

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• They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

  Thomas Browne

  Book, Men

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.158

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