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Thom Browne Inspirational Quotes (108)

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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.
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I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
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To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
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What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
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Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
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We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
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Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
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I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone’s dressed down. So actually putting on a jacket is the anti-­Establishment stance.
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Sleep is a death, O 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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I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
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What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
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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.
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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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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.
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Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.
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Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.
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There are no grotesques in nature not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
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Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
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Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.
Thomas Browne
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