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 a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed. — 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
They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial… — 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
