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Thomas Browne Quotes

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition Picture Quote #1

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; the weeping messenger of grace from heaven Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is a brave act of valor to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live Picture Quote #1

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb Picture Quote #1

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

As reason is a rebel unto faith, so passion unto reason; as the propositions of faith seem absurd unto reason, so the theories of reason unto passion Picture Quote #1

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces Picture Quote #1

An argument from authority is but a weak kind of proof, it being but a topical probation, and an inartificial argument depending on naked asseveration Picture Quote #1

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it Picture Quote #1

Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer; for an oath, which is the end of controversies in law, cannot determine any here, where reason only must induce Picture Quote #1

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Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it Picture Quote #1

There is no community or commonwealth of virtue; every man must study his own economy, and erect these rules unto the figure of himself Picture Quote #1

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I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition (Thomas Browne Quotes) Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; the weeping messenger of grace from heaven (Thomas Browne Quotes) 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 (Thomas Browne Quotes) It is a brave act of valor to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live (Thomas Browne Quotes) Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb (Thomas Browne Quotes) There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end (Thomas Browne Quotes) 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 (Thomas Browne Quotes) As reason is a rebel unto faith, so passion unto reason; as the propositions of faith seem absurd unto reason, so the theories of reason unto passion (Thomas Browne Quotes) There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces (Thomas Browne Quotes) An argument from authority is but a weak kind of proof, it being but a topical probation, and an inartificial argument depending on naked asseveration (Thomas Browne Quotes) As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it (Thomas Browne Quotes) Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer; for an oath, which is the end of controversies in law, cannot determine any here, where reason only must induce (Thomas Browne Quotes) Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it (Thomas Browne Quotes) There is no community or commonwealth of virtue; every man must study his own economy, and erect these rules unto the figure of himself (Thomas Browne Quotes)

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