Thomas Edward Brown Quotes

• I must be free… free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

  Thomas Edward Brown

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• As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

  Thomas Edward Brown

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• Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

  Thomas Edward Brown

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• A rich man’s joke is always funny.

  Thomas Edward Brown

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• It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

  Thomas Edward Brown

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• Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

  Thomas Edward Brown

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• The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

  Thomas Edward Brown

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Thomas Edward Brown (7)

Birth:	5th May, 1830
Death:	29th October, 1897
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet, Scholar, Theologian

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