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A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Christian Morals
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Cyrus' Garden
There is no road or ready way to virtue.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
The inequity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Urn Burial
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
Old families last not three oaks.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Urn Burial
All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Cyrus' Garden
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Urn Burial
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
Every man is his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Urn Burial
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
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