Thomas Browning Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.	Dictionaries
2	If God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.	God
3	What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just Deed --and not for pay? Absurd, --or insincere.	Good Deeds
4	The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, To put on when you're weary --or a stool to stumble over and vex you. . . "curse that stool!" or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this. . . that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.	Housework
5	How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise, I love thee with the passion put to use in my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints -I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! -and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.	Love
6	World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane; But is not the fruit of pain.	Pain
7	Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.	Repetition
8	Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.	Aging
9	Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.	Aging
10	Poetry puts the infinite within the finite.	Books

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