There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.
Thomas Browne
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Quotes from the same author
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Thomas Browne
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
Thomas Browne
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
Thomas Browne
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?
Thomas Browne
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Thomas Browne
