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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Quotes from the same author
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
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
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
