The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
¶ Christian Morals, Part III (1716)
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Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English physician and author
Yet is every man his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.
¶ Religio Medici, II.4 (1643)
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
¶ Religio Medici, pt. 1, sec. 25 (1643).
I can hardly think there was ever any scared into Heaven; they go the fairest way to Heaven that would serve God without a Hell.
¶ Religio Medici, I.52 (1643)
I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult point, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion. Some believe the better for seeing Christ's Sepulchre, and when they have seen the Red Sea, doubt not the miracle. Now contrarily I bless myself, and am thankful that I lived not in the days of miracles, that I never saw Christ nor His Disciples; I would not have been one of those Israelites that passed the Red Sea, nor one of Christ's patients, on whom He wrought His wonders; then had my faith been thrust upon me, nor should I enjoy that greater blessing pronounced to all that believe and saw not.
¶ Religio Medici, I.9 (1643)
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage to the sun.
¶ Religio Medici, II.11 (1643)
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
¶ Religio Medici, II.4 (1643)
There is another man within me that's angry with me.
¶ Religio Medici, II.7 (1643)
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
¶ Religio Medici, pt. I, sec. 25 (1643)
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. ... Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time.
¶ Urn-Burial (1658)
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