There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. — 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
That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny; but I… — 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
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read… — 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
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
“The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span.” — 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
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor… — 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… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world,… — 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
To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear… — 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
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
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world… — 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
Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but… — 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
