101 quotes
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
Religio Medici (1642)
"He that humbleth himself shall be exalted." This great law of the kingdom of God is, in the teaching of Christ, inscribed over its entrance-gate.
Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.
Religio Medici (1643)
Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
Religio Medici (1643)
This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
Religio Medici (1643)
Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
Religio Medici (1642)
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Religio Medici (1643)
For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.
Religio Medici (1643)
I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.
Religio Medici (1643)
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.
Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.
Religio Medici (1643)
Be charitable before Wealth makes thee covetous.
Letter to a Friend (1656)
There is no road or ready way to virtue.
Religio Medici (1643)
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.