219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

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

Oblivion is not to be hired.

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

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

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

Light is but the shadow of God.