Animal Quote by Thomas Browne

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

— Thomas Browne

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

— Thomas Browne

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

“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

“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

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

— Thomas Browne

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

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

— Thomas Browne

“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

Death is the cure for all diseases.

— Thomas Browne

Lord deliver me from myself.

— Thomas Browne

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

— Thomas Browne