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Sir Thomas Browne, MD (19 October 1605 β 19 October 1682) was an English author of varied works which disclose his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric.
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βPursue Virtue virtuously.β
βArt is the perfection of nature.β
βBe charitable before Wealth makes thee covetous.β
βThe long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.β
βAll things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.β
βPersecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.β
βHe who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.β
βThis reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.β
βHappy are they that go to bed with grave music like Pythagoras.β
βThe created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.β
βBe substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.β
βThat some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.β
βTime which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.β
βA man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.β
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Thomas Browne on Physiognomy 2 quotes
β[T]here is surely a Physiognomy, which those experienced and Master Mendicants observeβ¦ For there are mystically in our faces certain Characters that carry in them the motto of our Souls, wherein he that cannot read A.B.C. may read our natures.β
Thomas Browne on Eternity
βThe created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.β
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Thomas Browne on Pisces
βWho will not commend the wit of astrology? Venus, born out of the sea, hath her exaltation in Pisces.β
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Thomas Browne on Humility
β"He that humbleth himself shall be exalted." This great law of the kingdom of God is, in the teaching of Christ, inscribed over its entrance-gate.β
Thomas Browne on Moment
βThe number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the Γquinox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetick, which scarce stands one moment.β
Thomas Browne on Equinox
βThe number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the Γquinox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetick, which scarce stands one moment.β
Thomas Browne on Saturn
βBurden not the back of Aries, Leo, or Taurus, with thy faults, nor make Saturn, Mars, or Venus, guilty of thy Follies. Think not to fasten thy imperfections on the Stars, and so despairingly conceive thy self under a fatality of being evil.β
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Thomas Browne on Pythagoras
βI have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.β
About Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne, MD (19 October 1605 β 19 October 1682) was an English author of varied works which disclose his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric.