19 October: Sir Thomas Browne Quotes

Birth anniversary, 1605: Sir Thomas Browne, English physician and scholar, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy and Garden of Cyrus. Ten Quotes:

1. But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home.

2. Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

3. All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

4. Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

5. Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

6. Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

7. No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

8. Lord deliver me from myself.

9. We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

10. Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

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