Quote

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Thomas Browne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas Browne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1605
Born: October 19
Died: 1682
Died: October 19
Author
Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
London
England
Sir Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Like
Fine
Prayer
Sleep
Insomnia
Term
Prayers
Dies
Literally
Death
Daily
May
Dare
Without
Trust

More quotes by Thomas Browne

Image
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
Thomas Browne
Image
As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
Thomas Browne
Image
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
Thomas Browne
Image
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
Thomas Browne
Image
The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.
Thomas Browne
Image
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Thomas Browne
Image
The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.
Thomas Browne
Image
With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
Thomas Browne
Image
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Thomas Browne
Image
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Thomas Browne
Image
Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
Thomas Browne
Image
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Thomas Browne
Image
That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
Thomas Browne
Image
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
Thomas Browne
Image
Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
Thomas Browne
Image
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
Thomas Browne
Image
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
Thomas Browne
Image
Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
Thomas Browne
Image
Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
Image
God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
Thomas Browne