Sir Thomas Browne quote: "To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief."

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the trues...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Life is pure flame.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pro...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to depriv...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Death is the cure for all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

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

And first Satan's endeavours have ever been, and they cease not yet to instill a belief in the minde...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effec...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping m...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

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

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

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

It is we that are blind, not fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
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...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and es...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

God is like a skilful Geometrician.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary sp...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is b...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table amon...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: I desire to exercise my faith in the...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pr...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

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

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident o...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Women do most delight in revenge.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, i...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homag...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

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

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Continuing a series on God and the human condition: If we...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die: And as gently lay my head ...
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.
THOMAS BROWNE

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
THOMAS BROWNE

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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.
THOMAS BROWNE

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
THOMAS BROWNE

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari...
THOMAS BROWNE

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

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
THOMAS BROWNE

Natura nihil agit frustra, [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputed Axiome in Philosophy...
THOMAS BROWNE

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
THOMAS BROWNE

Death is the cure for all diseases.
THOMAS BROWNE

If there be any among those common objects of hatred which I can safely say I doe contemn and laugh ...
THOMAS BROWNE

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
THOMAS BROWNE

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
THOMAS BROWNE

It is we that are blind, not fortune.
THOMAS BROWNE

Well languag'd Danyel.
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal car...
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.
THOMAS BROWNE SR.

What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puz...
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.
SIR THOMAS MORE

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't ...
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...
SIR THOMAS OVERBORE

For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart ...
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.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for...
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.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the ...
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...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

And anon there came in a dove at a window, and in her mouth there seemed a little censer of gold, an...
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.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall e...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
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.
SIR THOMAS MALORY

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insigni...
SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
HARRY BROWNE

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they kn...
HARRY BROWNE

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently...
HARRY BROWNE

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - ...
HARRY BROWNE

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world...
HARRY BROWNE

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their ow...
HARRY BROWNE

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - ki...
HARRY BROWNE

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
HARRY BROWNE

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government ...
HARRY BROWNE

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them s...
HARRY BROWNE

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to m...
HARRY BROWNE

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was pr...
HARRY BROWNE

I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, relea...
HARRY BROWNE

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while...
HARRY BROWNE

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken fo...
HARRY BROWNE

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
HARRY BROWNE

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while ...
HARRY BROWNE

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not j...
HARRY BROWNE

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life b...
HARRY BROWNE

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstr...
JACKSON BROWNE

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, peopl...
JACKSON BROWNE

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's h...
JACKSON BROWNE

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand...
JACKSON BROWNE

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicia...
JACKSON BROWNE

To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

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To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

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