Author: Thomas Browne

Quotes

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

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

- Thomas Browne

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

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

- Thomas Browne

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

- Thomas Browne

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

- Thomas Browne

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

- Thomas Browne

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

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

- Thomas Browne

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

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

- Thomas Browne

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

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

- Thomas Browne

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

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

- Thomas Browne

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