To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On… — 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
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers. — 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
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
