Thomas Browne Short Quotes

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Every man's own reason is his best Oedipus.

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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

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

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

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Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

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The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

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To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.

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Art is the perfection of nature…nature is the art of God.

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

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This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

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Happy are they that go to bed with grave music like Pythagoras.

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

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With rich flames and hired tears they solemnized their obsequies.

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Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

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In briefe, all things are artificiall, for nature is the Art of God.

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He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

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I dare, without usurpation, assume the honorable style of a Christian.

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At my devotion I love to use the civility of my knee, my hat, and hand.

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To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

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I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

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We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

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For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.

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Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

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Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

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That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.

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Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.

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