Sir Thomas Browne
15 quotations
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
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.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Death is the cure for all diseases.