He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

Thomas Browne

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All the wonders you seek are within yourself. by Thomas Browne

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. by Thomas Browne

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

Thomas Browne
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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. by Thomas Browne

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. by Thomas Browne

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

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The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometim... by Thomas Browne

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

Thomas Browne
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By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relievin... by Thomas Browne

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

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There is no royal road or ready way to virtue. by Thomas Browne

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

Thomas Browne
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Light is the shadow of God. by Thomas Browne

Light is the shadow of God.

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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity. by Thomas Browne

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

Thomas Browne
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Think before you act; think twice before you speak. by Thomas Browne

Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

Thomas Browne
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I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Thomas Browne
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor an... by Thomas Browne

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

Thomas Browne
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. by Thomas Browne

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Thomas Browne
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There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Thomas Browne
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No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no m... by Thomas Browne

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

Thomas Browne
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There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

Thomas Browne
(Death is) A leap into the dark. by Thomas Browne

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

Thomas Browne
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grav... by Thomas Browne

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

Thomas Browne
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

Thomas Browne
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I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

Thomas Browne
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