With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all disease.” — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“He that looks for urns and old sepulchral relicks, must not seek them in the ruins of temples, where no religion anciently… — 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… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
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
