Quote

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

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
Something
Entered
Hath
Indeed
Though
History
Tell
Cannot
Without

More quotes by Thomas Browne

Image
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
Image
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
Thomas Browne
Image
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
Thomas Browne
Image
There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
Thomas Browne
Image
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Thomas Browne
Image
Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
Thomas Browne
Image
There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.
Thomas Browne
Image
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
Thomas Browne
Image
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.
Thomas Browne
Image
God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
Thomas Browne
Image
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
Thomas Browne
Image
Women do most delight in revenge.
Thomas Browne
Image
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
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
There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
Thomas Browne
Image
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Thomas Browne
Image
What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
Thomas Browne
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 eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
Thomas Browne
Image
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
Thomas Browne
Image
I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
Thomas Browne