“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond… — 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
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
