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Thomas Browne [1605-1682] British

Rank: 102
Scientist, Author

Sir Thomas Browne was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric.

Death, Age, Alone, Brainy, Faith, Home, Humor, Nature, Society

Quote	Tags	Rank
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.	Death	101
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.		102
Death is the cure for all diseases.	Death	103
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.	Age	104
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.	Brainy	105
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.	Nature	106
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.	Home	107
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.		108
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.	Alone, Society	109
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.	Faith	110
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.		111
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.		112
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.		113
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.		114
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.		115
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.		116
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.		117
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.		118
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.	Humor	119
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.		120
It is we that are blind, not fortune.		121

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