Quote #9
Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.
More from Sir Thomas Browne
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- All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.
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- This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
- Rich with the spoils of nature.
- 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…
- The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.