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Person·Sir Thomas Browne✕clear

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

There is no road or ready way to vertue.

Sir Thomas Browne

Religio Medici · 1643

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.

Sir Thomas Browne

1643

★ 3.6

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Sir Thomas Browne

1658

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to our selves?

Sir Thomas Browne

1643

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

There is surely a peece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.

Sir Thomas Browne

1643

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet bee forced to surrender.

Sir Thomas Browne

1643

★ 3.5

Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

Sir Thomas Browne

Hydriotaphia · 1658

★ 3.5

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Sir Thomas Browne

1682

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few dayes I should dissent my selfe.

Sir Thomas Browne

Religio Medici · 1643

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

All things are artificiall, for nature is the Art of God.

Sir Thomas Browne

1643

★ 1.9

Religious literature

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

Sir Thomas Browne

1682

★ 1.9

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

Sir Thomas Browne

1658

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

Sir Thomas Browne

Religio Medici · 1643

★ 1.1