Quotation:
"I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition."
More quotes from: Thomas Browne
- "A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and ..."
- "All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. "
- "As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. "
- "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of ..."
- "Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. "
- "But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of ..."
- "Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? ..."
- "Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping ..."
- "Death is the cure for all diseases. "
- "Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. "
- "It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there ..."
- "It is we that are blind, not fortune. "
- "Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. "
- "Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of ..."
- "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. "
- "Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. "
- "Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. "
- "Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. "
- "There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of ..."
- "Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it ..."
- "To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. "


