1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Truth]
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Nature]
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Reason]
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Charity]
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Fame]
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Charity]
Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Repentance]
Death is the cure for all diseases.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Death and Dying]
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Hatred]
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Procreation]
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Faces]
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Eyes]
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Envy]
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Death and Dying]
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Passion]
Nature is the art of God.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Nature]
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Obstinacy]
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Potential]
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.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Death and Dying]
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Sir Thomas Browne – [Faith]