57 ordspråk av Thomas Browne, Sr.
Thomas Browne, Sr.
 A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. |
| A rich man's joke is always funny |
| All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. |
| And though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose. |
| As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. |
| Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. |
| Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous |
| But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?- Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner |
| But the quincunx of heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five ports of knowledge. |
| By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also |
| By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also |
| Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes to behold felicity; the first day of our Jubilee is death |
| Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven. |
| Dreams out of the ivory gate, and visions before midnight. |
| For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches. |
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