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Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]


Sir Thomas Browne

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SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is no road or ready way to virtue.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers.
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is...
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homag...
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
THOMAS BROWNE The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
THOMAS BROWNE ... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain...
THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike...
THOMAS BROWNE There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
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THOMAS BROWNE Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
THOMAS BROWNE Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
THOMAS BROWNE We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
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THOMAS BROWNE It is we that are blind, not fortune.
THOMAS BROWNE Well languag'd Danyel.
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SIR WILLIAM BROWNE If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good
THOMAS BROWNE, SR. Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
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THOMAS BROWNE SR. Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to pros...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes t...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. A rich man's joke is always funny
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Vice may be had at all prices
THOMAS BROWNE SR. By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also
THOMAS BROWNE SR. There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any w...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Thus we are men and we know not how: there is something in us that can be without us, and will be af...
THOMAS BROWNE, SR. There is music in the beauty, and the silent note that cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of ...
THOMAS BROWNE, SR. Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain ...
SIR THOMAS WYATT Never despair, keep pushing on!
SIR THOMAS LIPTON Patience, though I have not
The thing that I require,
I must of force, God wot,
Forbear my...
SIR THOMAS WYATT Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
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SIR THOMAS MORE I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
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SIR THOMAS BEECHAM The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Ma...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them...
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SIR THOMAS MALORY The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only ...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
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SIR THOMAS MORE For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we...
SIR THOMAS MORE Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and holsomnesse, and is equall to capon in nourishynge.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
SIR THOMAS MORE Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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SIR THOMAS MORE I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
SIR THOMAS MALORY " i am a man, not a duck, llama, or fish, once a man, always a man"
SIR STUART THOMAS A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
SIR THOMAS MORE They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so m...
SIR THOMAS MORE This hath not offended the king.
SIR THOMAS MORE Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
SIR THOMAS MORE Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known...
SIR THOMAS MORE Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT Then on the grounde Togyder rounde With manye a sadde stroke, They roll and rumble, ...
SIR THOMAS MORE [The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end ...
SIR THOMAS ROE Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.
SIR THOMAS MALORY Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
SIR THOMAS WYATT What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
SIR THOMAS MALORY And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
SIR THOMAS MALORY For love that time was not as love is nowadays.
SIR THOMAS MALORY Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all yo...
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SIR THOMAS MALORY Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed!
SIR THOMAS MALORY If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
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SIR THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.
SIR THOMAS MORE Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
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