Quote #17

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

More from Sir Thomas Browne

  1. How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.
  2. There is no road or ready way to virtue.
  3. I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.
  4. I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
  5. 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…
  6. They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
  7. 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…
  8. No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

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