Thomas Browne Quotes (66 Quotes)

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

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, Sleep is so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

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.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

There is no road or ready way to virtue.