Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici

GOD's mercy.-§ 60. Faith.

SECOND PART.

§1. Charity.-§ 2. Charity must spring from a proper motive.

The nature of created beings signified in their outward forms.

Of chiromancy. Variety of outward forms in nature.

83. The souls of our fellow creatures as much the object

of charity as their bodies. The duty of imparting knowledge.

Difference of opinion need not divide affection.-84. National

want of Charity. Man most ignorant in the knowledge of

himself.-85. Of sympathy.-§ 6. The mystery of true affec-

tion.-87. To forgive is the sweetest revenge.—§ 8. Of pride

and conceit.-§9. Of marriage and harmony. Our Physician

hath the general cause of humanity at heart.-§ 10. Our Phy-

sician thinketh no man so bad but that there is good in him,

and feareth his own corruption more than contagion from

others.-11. Man's life a constant miracle. Of dreams.-

§ 12. Of sleep.-§ 13. Justice. Avarice a ridiculous vice.

Poor men may be liberal, and even munificent.-§ 14. GOD to

be loved for His own sake, and our neighbour for GOD's.-

$15. Our Physician concludeth that there is no happiness but

in GOD.

A LETTER TO A FRIEND, &c. .

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FIRST PART

Fursue virtue viracely.-$2. A triumph (not ovation) over
PASSIVES Adjora not thy chastity.-§4. Be tempe-
Barve God better.-$5. Charity. Diffuse thy beneficence
Zre mer, nicely.—$7. The covetous merciless
Cremates are but unto one world.—§9. Be grained

I TITE I ur t-ia Flain virtue. Have no by-

234$. Law of thy country, not the non ultra of thy

3-$12 Morality not ambulatory. No new ethicks..
rm an absurd depravity.—§14 Humility, owe not to
Jution-$13 Forgiveness to be total.-§ 16. Charity the
YAN-$17. Fasten the rudder of thy will; steer

XI INN-$18. Bid early defiance to thy rooted vices.

A Se stiscantially great; thine own monarch.-§ 20. Be

Best CLEER rs; they rate the devils.-§ 21. Annihilate
CXIS nerdes by ingrantude.-§ 22. Conscience will
Shase Issize.—§23. Flattery is a juggler; fall not
See Armath no name in Scripture. The hand of Pro-
NAX-a Moner and honours not to be rejected.-
egge may dwell in au stations. —§ 28. Nothing totally
Seros in all human tempers.-§ 29. Overlook not
Kes olen bound up in adversities.-§ 30. Pass not

Xxan of sa; merciful interventions may recall us.-

CXiend not the distinctions of men and women.-

Rear under the merits of thy ancestors; shine by thy

Se not away thy days in sloth. Tediousness of

iR-34 Busy not thy tongue in the encomium of

$35. Be thankful for honest parents. Modesty pre-

-$24 Study the dominion of thyself.—

the

rade of sins.-§36. Heroism of the soldiery;

the End gentleman,

SECOND PART.

$t. Glut av dreef with pleasure; the strength of delight is in
is seldomnos-$2 Human lapses not to be to strictly

judged. § 3. Avoid dogmatism; let well-weighed considera-

tions guide. -84. Natural parts and good judgements rule the

world. §5. Swell not the leaves of learning by fruitless repe-

titions.-6. Despair not of better things whereof there is yet

no prospect.-87. Speckled face of honesty in the world.-

§8. Weigh not thyself in the scales of thy own opinion.

Self-conceit a fallacy of high content.-§9. Physiognomy.
Schemes of look. -§ io. Court not felicity too far; it sharpens
affliction.-§ 11. Ponder the acts of Providence. Judgements
on others, our monitions.-§ 12. Good-natured persons best
founded for Heaven.-§ 13. To learn to die, better than to
study the ways of dying.

THIRD PART.

§1. No one age exemplary: the world early bad.—§2. He

honours GOD who imitates Him.-§ 3. Embrace not the blind

side of opinions.-§ 4. To be virtuous by epitome, be firm to

the principles of goodness.-§ 5. Guide not the hand of GOD.

Repine not at the good of others.-§ 6. Grain not vicious

stains, which virtuous washes might expunge.-§ 7. Burden

not the stars with thy faults. Fatalism.-§ 8. Let every divi-

sion of life be happy in its proper virtues.-§ 9. Be able to be

alone.-§ 10. The whole world a phylactery: wisdom of GOD

in everything we see.-§ 11. Think not to find heaven on

earth; true beatitude groweth not here.-§ 12. Revenge,

feminine manhood. If no mercy for others, be not cruel to

thyself. § 13. Study prophecies when they are become his-

tories.-§ 14. Live unto the dignity of thy nature.-§ 15. The

vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.-

$16. Forget not the wheel of things, but beat not thy brains

to foreknow them.-§ 17. Ingratitude, degenerous vice!—

8.18. Virtue of taciturnity.-§ 19. Oaths. Honest men's

words Stygian oaths.-§ 20. Personate only thyself. Let

veracity be thy virtue in words, manners, and actions.-

§21. Labour in the ethicks of faith; not in old high-strained

paradoxes.--§ 22. In seventy or eighty years one may have a

curt epitome of the whole course of time.-§ 23. Elysium of a

§1. Pursue virtue virtuously.-§ 2. A triumph (not ovation) over

thy passions.-§ 3. Adjourn not thy chastity.-§4. Be tempe-

rate, to serve GOD better.-§ 5. Charity. Diffuse thy beneficence

early;-§6. give largely, widely.-§ 7. The covetous merciless

to themselves;-§ 8. live but unto one world.-§9. Be grained

in virtue, not lightly dipt.-§ 10. Plain virtue. Have no by-

ends.-§ II. Law of thy country, not the non ultra of thy

honesty. § 12. Morality not ambulatory. No new ethicks-

§ 13. Envy, an absurd depravity.-§14. Humility, owe not to

humiliation. § 15. Forgiveness to be total.-§ 16. Charity the

crowning grace.-§ 17. Fasten the rudder of thy will; steer

strait unto good.-§ 18. Bid early defiance to thy rooted vices.

-819. Be substantially great; thine own monarch. -§ 20. Be

deaf to calumniators; they relieve the devils.-§21. Annihilate

not God's mercies by ingratitude.-§ 22. Conscience will

shorten the great assize.—§ 23. Flattery is a juggler; fall not

into self-adulation.-§ 24. Study the dominion of thy elf.-

$25. Fortune hath no name in Scripture. The hand of Pro-

vidence.-§ 26. Money and honours not to be rejected.-

§ 27. Content may dwell in all stations.-§ 28. Nothing totally

bad; though dros in all human tempers.-§ 29. Overlook not

the mercies often bound up in adversities. -§ 30. Pass not

the Rubicon of sin; merciful interventions may recall us.-

§31. Confound not the distinctions of men and women.-

$32. Rest not under the merits of thy ancestors; shine by thy

own.-833. Dull not away thy days in sloth. Tediousness of

doing nothing.-§ 34. Busy not thy tongue in the encomium of

thyself.-835. Be thankful for honest parents. Modesty pre-

venteth a multitude of sins.-§ 36. Heroism of the soldiery;

the English gentleman.

SECOND PART.

§1. Glut not thyself with pleasure; the strength of delight is in

judged.—§ 3. Avoid dogmatism; let well weighed considera-

tions guide.-84. Natural parts and good judgements rule the

world.-5. Swell not the leaves of learning by fruitless repe-

titions.-§6. Despair not of better things whereof there is yet

no prospect.-87. Speckled face of honesty in the world.-

§8. Weigh not thyself in the scales of thy own opinion.

Self-conceit a fallacy of high content.-§9. Physiognomy.
Schemes of look.-§ 10. Court not felicity too far; it sharpens
affliction.-§ 11. Ponder the acts of Providence. Judgements
on others, our monitions.-§ 12. Good-natured persons best
founded for Heaven.-§ 13. To learn to die, better than to
study the ways of dying.

THIRD PART.

§1. No one age exemplary: the world early bad.-§ 2. He

honours GOD who imitates Him.-§ 3. Embrace not the blind

side of opinions.-§ 4. To be virtuous by epitome, be firm to

the principles of goodness.-§ 5. Guide not the hand of GOD.

Repine not at the good of others.-§ 6. Grain not vicious

stains, which virtuous washes might expunge.-§ 7. Burden

not the stars with thy faults. Fatalism.-§ 8. Let every divi-

sion of life be happy in its proper virtues.-§ 9. Be able to be

alone.-§ 10. The whole world a phylactery: wisdom of GoD

in everything we see.-§ 11. Think not to find heaven on

earth; true beatitude groweth not here.-§ 12. Revenge,