The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity. Thomas Browne More Quotes by Thomas Browne More Quotes From Thomas Browne Lord deliver me from myself. Thomas Browne lord self Many-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. Thomas Browne troops errors enemy If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra. Thomas Browne confused taken men Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich. Thomas Browne fruition dying satisfaction The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. Thomas Browne virtue vices laughing It is we that are blind, not fortune. Thomas Browne blind eye fortune To be content with death may be better than to desire it. Thomas Browne desire may death For God is like a skilfull Geometrician. Thomas Browne geometry god science Men 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 man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. Thomas Browne health men thinking Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive. Thomas Browne delight revenge may Women do most delight in revenge. Thomas Browne delight revenge Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the Art of God. Thomas Browne nature animal art Thus 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'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other. Thomas Browne nature book lying To 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 therein: for first wee are a rude masse, and in the ranke of creatures, which only are, and have a dull kinde of being not yet priviledged with life, or preferred to sense or reason; next we live the life of plants, the life of animals, the life of men, and at last the life of spirits, running on in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existence, which comprehend the creatures not onely of world, but of the Universe. Thomas Browne live-life running animal Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels. Thomas Browne angel believe country 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 victory desire men A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat. Thomas Browne goats steel blood For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches. Thomas Browne witch knows As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith. Thomas Browne divinity atheism brain 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 hair philosophy art
