Quote #10

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

More from Sir Thomas Browne

  1. Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.
  2. Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in divers elements, but in divide…
  3. This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
  4. All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.
  5. I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof; 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure…
  6. We carry with us the wonders, we seek without us: There is all Africa, and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of n…
  7. Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral ac…
  8. Rich with the spoils of nature.

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