A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. Thomas Browne More Quotes by Thomas Browne More Quotes From Thomas Browne Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God. Thomas Browne art-is perfection art Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible. Thomas Browne men two world The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed. Thomas Browne wise love-is men Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them. Thomas Browne vagabonds three bees Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction. Thomas Browne credit victory opinion 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 spheres may order 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 levels men moving God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed. Thomas Browne inclination action men Sleep is a death, O make me try Thomas Browne bed sleep trying I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty. Thomas Browne scared heaven way Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job. Thomas Browne taught-us suicide jobs 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 circles solitude said Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it. Thomas Browne body speak time Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers. Thomas Browne brother prayer sleep As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it. Thomas Browne arithmetic lasts sin We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. Thomas Browne consent fancy seems A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude. Thomas Browne devil solitude men The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out. Thomas Browne six world years 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 debt envy dumb Festination may prove Precipitation; Thomas Browne haste procrastination wise
