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
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not… — 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
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason… — 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
The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will… — 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
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of… — 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
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself. — 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
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. — 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
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of… — 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
