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Thomas Browne
British
Scientist
About the author
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#May
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#End
#Evil
#Malice
#Hatred
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#May
#Man
#Truth
#Possession
#Surrender
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#God
#Art
#Nature
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Reason
#Faith
#Passion
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Society
#Solitude
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Wealth
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,
British
Scientist
#Life
#Death
#Power
Death is the cure for all diseases.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Death
#Cure
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Wonders
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Wonder
#Men
#Faces
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Blind
#Fortune
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Possibilities
#Faith
#Philosophy
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.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Enemy
#World
#Home
#Man
#Voice
#Charity
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Death
#Labor
#Cure
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Age
#Envy
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#May
#Faces
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Cause
#Constancy
#Obstinacy
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Reason
#Men
#Passion
#Humor
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Man
#Grave
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne,
British
Scientist
#Life
#Death
#Living
#Shadow
#Shadows