Quote

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

Thomas Browne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
Author
Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Sadness
Misery
Compassion
Others
Also
Make
Relieving
Relieve

More quotes by Thomas Browne

Image
If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.
Thomas Browne
Image
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.
Thomas Browne
Image
He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
Thomas Browne
Image
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
Thomas Browne
Image
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
Image
As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
Thomas Browne
Image
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
Thomas Browne
Image
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
Image
A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
Thomas Browne
Image
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
Thomas Browne
Image
Festination may prove Precipitation Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Thomas Browne
Image
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
Thomas Browne
Image
Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
Thomas Browne
Image
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Thomas Browne
Image
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.
Thomas Browne
Image
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.
Thomas Browne
Image
To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
Thomas Browne
Image
There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
Thomas Browne
Image
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
Thomas Browne
Image
That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
Thomas Browne