Thomas Browne
Death is the cure for all diseases.Collection: Death
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.Collection: Brainy
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.Collection: Humor
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Collection: Society
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.Collection: Death
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.Collection: Nature
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.Collection: Age
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
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.
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.Collection: Bullying
Think before you act; think twice before you speak.Collection: Thinking
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.Collection: Thinking
The religion of one seems madness unto another.Collection: Statistics
Light is but the shadow of God.Collection: Light
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.Collection: Sleep
The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.Collection: World
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.Collection: Being Alone
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.Collection: Adversity
Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.Collection: Inspirational
Every Country hath its Machiavel.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Men
Light is the shadow of God.Collection: Light
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.Collection: Vices
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Philosophy
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.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Flesh
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.Collection: Death
Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.Collection: Brother
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.Collection: Suicidal
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.Collection: Death
As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.Collection: Lasts
Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.Collection: Lying
Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.Collection: Victory
A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.Collection: Blood
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Eye
Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.Collection: Country