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• By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

  Thomas Browne

  Sadness, Compassion, Misery

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas Chapman (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.114

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• Light is the shadow of God.

  Thomas Browne

  Light, Shadow

  Sir Thomas Browne (2012). “Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall”, p.152, New York Review of Books

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• 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, Philosophical

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• Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

  Thomas Browne

  Causes, Stubbornness, Obstinacy

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 25

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• The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

  Thomas Browne

  Philosophy, Real, School

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.25

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• 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.

  Thomas Browne

  Flesh, Way, Moral

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence”, p.64

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• The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

  Thomas Browne

  Laughing, Vices, Virtue

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.183

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• Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

  Thomas Browne

  Fancy, Reason, Humour

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.333

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• We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

  Thomas Browne

  Judgement, Experience, Tomorrow

  Sir Thomas Browne (1956). “Religio Medici, Hydrictaphia: Urne-burial, Christian Morals, On Dreams”

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• A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.345

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• Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tranquillity of charity and all friendly society. These are the tongues that set the world on fire--cankerers of reputation, and, like that of Jonah's gourd, wither a good name in a single night.

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  Sleep, Night, Men

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• But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Animal, Flames

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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• We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Disease, Cures

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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

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  Anger, Men, Angry

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.433

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• Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Passion, Men

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.264

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• And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

  Thomas Browne

  Taken, Men, Years

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.79

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• Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.

  Thomas Browne

  Light, Invisible

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

  Thomas Browne

  Book, Men

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.158

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• (Death is) A leap into the dark.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Dark, Leap

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• For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

  Thomas Browne

  Order, May, Spheres

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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• How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

  Thomas Browne

  Charity, Executioners, Charitable

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.126

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• The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

  Thomas Browne

  Heart, Men, Devil

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.100

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

  Thomas Browne

  Suicidal, Doors, Thousand

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

  Thomas Browne

  Science, Soul, Temples

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• To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

  Thomas Browne

  Vices, Pieces, Madness

  Sir Thomas Browne, Claire Preston (1995). “Selected Writings”, p.30, Psychology Press

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