There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. — 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
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... — 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
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
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of… — 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
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. — Thomas Browne Copy Share
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share
That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny; but I have no… — Thomas Browne Copy Share
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. — Thomas Browne Copy Share
