Quotes from Thomas Browne

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.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

Light is the shadow of God.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Light is but the shadow of God.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.