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
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
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
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
