Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time? — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. — 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 upon their… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be super-heresies, and Arians not onely divided from their Church, but also among themselves: for heads that are disposed unto Schisme...are naturally indisposed for a community, nor will ever be confined unto the order or oeconomy of… — 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 Image
“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 those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the care, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. Whatever is harmonically composed delights in harmony; which makes… — 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 Image
