The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. Thomas Browne More Quotes by Thomas Browne More Quotes From Thomas Browne 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 prayer sleep death Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. Thomas Browne hate hatred evil Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity. Thomas Browne wisdom wise men Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one. Thomas Browne suicidal thousand doors I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself. Thomas Browne differences justice men But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Thomas Browne merit men memories Now 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 within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another. Thomas Browne circles sorrow real I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse. Thomas Browne hours life past I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God. Thomas Browne new-friendship real soul Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. Thomas Browne executioners men enemy The religion of one seems madness unto another. Thomas Browne madness statistics seems ... 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 those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker. Thomas Browne nature wise hands Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth. Thomas Browne hours garden earth I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers. Thomas Browne secret numbers way That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead. Thomas Browne miracle life believe There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures. Thomas Browne soul character life I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life. Thomas Browne wise men sex Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint. Thomas Browne suffering reason men Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. Thomas Browne next happiness world Study prophecies when they are become histories. Thomas Browne prophecy study
