More from Sir Thomas Browne

  1. Pursue Virtue virtuously.
  2. Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
  3. And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy th…
  4. The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.
  5. Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their…
  6. He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
  7. To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
  8. Burden not the back of Aries, Leo, or Taurus, with thy faults, nor make Saturn, Mars, or Venus, guilty of thy Follies.

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