Sir Thomas Browne Quotes
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As sins proceed they ever multiply; and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that went before it.
[Sin]
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Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
[Beneficence]
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Content may dwell in all stations. To be low, but above contempt, may be high enough to be happy.
[Forgiveness]
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He hath riches sufficient, who hath enough to be charitable.
[Riches]
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He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
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I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of opinion be angry with his judgment for not agreeing in that from which, within a few days, I might dissent myself.
[Opinion]
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I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.
[Knowledge]
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In all disputes, so much as there is of passion, so much there is of nothing to the purpose; for then reason, like a bad hound, spends upon a false scent, and forsakes the question first started.
[Passion]
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It is a brave act of valor to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
[Valor]
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Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.
[Friendship]
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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.
[Health]
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Much that we call evil is really good in disguise; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
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No man can judge another, because no man knows himself, for we censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.
[Judgment]
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Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer; for an oath, which is the end of controversies in law, cannot determine any here, where reason only must decide.
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Praise is a debt we owe to the virtues of others, and is due to our own from all whom malice has not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
[Praise]
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Scholars are men of peace; they bear no arms, but their tongues are sharper than a razor; their pens carry further, and give a louder report than thunder. I had rather stand in the shock of a basilisk, than in the fury of a merciless pen.
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Scholars are men of peace; they bear no arms, but their tongues are sharper than the sword; their pens carry further and give a louder report than thunder. I had rather stand in the shock of a basilisk than in the fury of a merciless pen.
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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.
[World]
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The whole world is a phylactery, and everything we see is an item of the wisdom, power, or goodness of God.
[God]
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Though I think no man can live well once but he that could live twice, yet for my own part, I would not live over my hours past, or begin again the thread ot my days: not because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
[Life]
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