Thomas BrowneNo one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.371Death
Thomas BrowneA man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. ✨ 'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 6373Truth
Thomas BrowneBy compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas Chapman (1831). Religio Med… ▶353Love
Thomas BrowneLife is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us. ✨ 1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.331Life
Thomas BrowneWere the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. ✨ 'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 4376Life
Thomas BrowneFor the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. ✨ Religio Medici pt. 2, sec. 11 (1643)366Death
Thomas BrowneMen live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1831). Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Au… ▶311HumorLove
Thomas BrowneBe able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1844). Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals, p.176345Philosophy
Thomas BrowneIt is we that are blind, not fortune. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas CHAPMAN (of Exeter College, Oxford.) (1831). Religio Medici, p.36301Reading
Thomas BrowneRough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.334Time
Thomas BrowneHe is rich who hath enough to be charitable. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1872). Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers, p.151291Death
Thomas BrowneTo be content with death may be better than to desire it. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1852). The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon… ▶368Death
Thomas BrowneThus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'… ▶3710Reading
Thomas BrowneLife itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. ✨ 'The Garden of Cyrus' (1658) ch. 4358DeathLife
Thomas BrowneTo call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told me there was a reall truth ther… ▶348LifeThoughtTruth
Thomas BrowneMen that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of ma… ▶304DeathLifeReflection
Thomas BrowneI am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place t… ▶304Life
Thomas BrowneAll things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ✨ Religio Medici pt. 1, sec. 16 (1643)3610Sadness
Thomas BrowneFor God is like a skilfull Geometrician. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (2012). Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall, p.19, New York Review of Books316Reading
Thomas BrowneBut the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. ✨ 'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) c… ▶273Sadness
Thomas BrowneTo believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy. ✨ 1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 48.3310HopePhilosophy
Thomas BrowneAll things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven. ✨ 'The … ▶3310Time
Thomas BrowneWe carry within us the wonders we seek without us. ✨ 'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15307Truth
Thomas BrowneLet the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1869). Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and th… ▶308DeathLifeTruth
Thomas BrowneContent may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1844). Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... … ▶242Reflection
Thomas BrowneNow with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and wit… ▶275LifeSadness
Thomas BrowneThe vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1844). Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowp… ▶265Humor
Thomas Browne... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at … ▶276LifePhilosophy
Thomas BrowneForcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1852). The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A le… ▶221Death
Thomas BrowneThe long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. ✨ 'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5254DeathLife
