Thomas Browne Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ...
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.
A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
I have tried if I could reach that great resolution ... to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.
As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.