The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. - Thomas Browne - Quotesmemo.com

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Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

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Thomas Browne

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

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Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

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How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

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A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

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I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.

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

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