219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

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

Light is the shadow of God.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.