Quotes from Thomas Browne

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.

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.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.