I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick;… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. — Thomas Browne Copy Share
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their… — Thomas Browne Copy Share
“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint… — Thomas Browne Copy Share
“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be… — Thomas Browne Copy Share
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in… — Thomas Browne Copy Share
“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for… — Thomas Browne Copy Share
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. — Thomas Browne Copy Share
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share
That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny; but I have no… — Thomas Browne Copy Share
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. — Thomas Browne Copy Share
