STSir Thomas Browne

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Sir Thomas Browne

Life dates: 1605 AD — 1682 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1643 AD

Too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

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02c. 1643 AD

Rich with the spoils of Nature.

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03c. 1643 AD

Nature is the art of God.

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04c. 1643 AD

The thousand doors that lead to death.

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05c. 1643 AD

The heart of man is the place the Devil 's in: I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

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06c. 1643 AD

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

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07c. 1643 AD

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.

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08c. 1643 AD

There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

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09c. 1643 AD

Sleep is a death; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed!

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10c. 1643 AD

Ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua.

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11c. 1643 AD

Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,—when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.

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12c. 1643 AD

I look upon you as gem of the old rock.

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13c. 1643 AD

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.

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14c. 1643 AD

Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests.

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15c. 1643 AD

Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.

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16c. 1643 AD

What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.

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17c. 1643 AD

When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.

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18c. 1643 AD

A sick man's sacrifice is but a lame oblation.

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19c. 1643 AD

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

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20c. 1643 AD

Every man's own reason is his best Œdipus.

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21c. 1643 AD

Futurity still shortens, and time present sucks in time to come.

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22c. 1643 AD

It is the common wonder of all men how, among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.

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23c. 1643 AD

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 induce.

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24c. 1643 AD

Rest not in an ovation, but in a triumph over thy passions.

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