Thomas Browne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
-- Thomas Browne

#Self Esteem #Wonder #Esteem
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
-- Thomas Browne

#Thinking #Rich
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
-- Thomas Browne

#Spiritual #Wisdom #Journey
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
-- Thomas Browne

#Sadness #Compassion #Misery
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
-- Thomas Browne

#Inspirational #May #Pebbles
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.
-- Thomas Browne

#Nature #Philosophy #Science
Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.
-- Thomas Browne

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
-- Thomas Browne

#Men #Faces #Common
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

#Home #Men #Voice
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
-- Thomas Browne

#Inspirational #Passion #Men
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
-- Thomas Browne

#Inspirational #Helping Others #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

#Death #Dying #Arms
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
-- Thomas Browne

#Departed #Soul #Shadow
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
-- Thomas Browne

#Passion #Rebel #Reason
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
-- Thomas Browne

#Causes #Obstinacy #Constancy
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
-- Thomas Browne

#Self #Solitude #Able
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
-- Thomas Browne

#Science #Soul #Temples
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
-- Thomas Browne

#Life #Sound #Silent
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
-- Thomas Browne

#Life #Long #Dying
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
-- Thomas Browne

#God #Art #Nature
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
-- Thomas Browne

#Wrinkles #Envy #Age
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.
-- Thomas Browne

#Adversity #Men #Alive
That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
-- Thomas Browne
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...
-- Thomas Browne

#Mistake #Lapses #May
God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
-- Thomas Browne

#Men #Action #Variety

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