For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world,… — 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… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of… — 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
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
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
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
