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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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<strong>The</strong> night <strong>of</strong> time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?<br />

‘Hydriotaphia’ (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5<br />

Diurnity is a dream and folly <strong>of</strong> expectation.<br />

‘Hydriotaphia’ (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5<br />

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.<br />

‘Hydriotaphia’ (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5<br />

Ready to be any thing, in the ecstasy <strong>of</strong> being ever.<br />

‘Hydriotaphia’ (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5<br />

At my devotion I love to use the civility <strong>of</strong> my knee, my hat, and hand.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 3<br />

Many from...an inconsiderate zeal unto truth, have too rashly charged the troops <strong>of</strong> error, and<br />

remain as trophies unto the enemies <strong>of</strong> truth.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 6<br />

A man may be in as just possession <strong>of</strong> truth as <strong>of</strong> a city, and yet be forced to surrender.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 6<br />

As for those wingy mysteries in divinity and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged<br />

the brains <strong>of</strong> better heads, they never stretched the pia mater <strong>of</strong> mine; methinks there be not<br />

impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 9<br />

I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo!<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 9<br />

Who can speak <strong>of</strong> eternity without a solecism, or think there<strong>of</strong> without an ecstasy? Time we<br />

may comprehend, ’tis but five days elder than ourselves.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 11<br />

I have <strong>of</strong>ten admired the mystical way <strong>of</strong> Pythagoras, and the secret magic <strong>of</strong> numbers.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 12<br />

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15<br />

All things are artificial, for nature is the art <strong>of</strong> God.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 16<br />

Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 25<br />

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 25<br />

Not wrung from speculations and subtleties, but from common sense, and observation;not<br />

picked from the leaves <strong>of</strong> any author, but bred among the weeds and tares <strong>of</strong> mine own brain.<br />

‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 36<br />

I am not so much afraid <strong>of</strong> death, as ashamed there<strong>of</strong>; ’tis the very disgrace and ignominy <strong>of</strong><br />

our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us that our nearest friends, wife, and children,

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