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
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
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
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In… — 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
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
