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Thomas Browne Inspirational Quotes (102)

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It is we that are blind, not fortune because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.
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To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
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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.
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We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
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Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
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Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
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Think not silence the wisdom of fools but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
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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.
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There is another man within me that's angry with me.
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I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
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I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
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Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
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There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
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I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.
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There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.
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Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
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Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
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Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.
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Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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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
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