And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence,… — 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
