Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. — 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
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen. — 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