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• 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

  Death, Hands, Dying

  Thomas Browne (1682). “Religio Medici”, p.100

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• He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

  Thomas Browne

  Christian, Moral

  'Christian Morals' (1716) pt. 1, sect. 34

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• As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

  Thomas Browne

  Brain, Atheism, Divinity

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 9

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• Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Charity

  "Christian Morals".

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• Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Sir Thomas Browne, Claire Preston (1995). “Selected Writings”, p.155, Psychology Press

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• Women do most delight in revenge.

  Thomas Browne

  Revenge, Delight

  Sir Thomas Browne (1872). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.251

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• Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

  Thomas Browne

  Years, Stones, Lasts

  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.43

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• It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

  Thomas Browne

  Eye, Mystery, Blind

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• There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Character, Soul

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.102

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• I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Sex, Men

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.2, section 9.

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• Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Gold, Ashes

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns”, p.475

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• What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Philosophy, Hair

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• Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

  Thomas Browne

  Flattery, Sincerity, Jugglers

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.144

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• Rich with the spoils of nature.

  Thomas Browne

  Nature, Rich, Spoil

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.19

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• They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

  Thomas Browne

  Vices, Virtue, Endeavour

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.119

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• Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Perfection, Art Is

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• Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

  Thomas Browne

  Revenge, Delight, May

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.101

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• Sleep is a death, O make me try
  By sleeping, what it is to die,
  And as gently lay my head
  On my grave, as now my bed.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, Trying, Bed

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.113

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• Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

  Thomas Browne

  Dying, Fruition, Satisfaction

  Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.185

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• Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

  Thomas Browne

  Years, Gravestone, Forty

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.343

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• Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Best Of Me, Remarkable

  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.44

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• I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

  Thomas Browne

  Shock, Fury, Pens

  Sir Thomas Browne (1886). “Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici: Urn burial, Christian morals, and other essays”

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• Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Stones, Reason

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 4

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• 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.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.446

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• With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Pain, World

  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.120

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