More from Sir Thomas Browne

  1. The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
  2. 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.
  3. How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.
  4. They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
  5. 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.
  6. No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
  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. But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world, y…

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