Quotes
Quotes - Browne
The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: 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.
Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.
Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.
Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
The worldâA small parenthesis in eternity.
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.
God is like a skilful Geometrician.
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
Well languag'd Danyel.
