I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin.… — 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
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In… — 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