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 More Quotes by Thomas Browne More Quotes From Thomas Browne We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow. Thomas Browne judgement experience tomorrow If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent. Thomas Browne generosity mind thinking Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits. Thomas Browne rectify habit age That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed. Thomas Browne improbable laughed To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun. Thomas Browne earth world needs Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number. Thomas Browne numbers men world A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. Thomas Browne sea wind water The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves. Thomas Browne theatre What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. Thomas Browne achilles names song 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 arrows evil sleep And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry. Thomas Browne taken men years Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man. Thomas Browne oblivion records men Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. Thomas Browne thyself Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. Thomas Browne publishing printed The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. Thomas Browne done fear enemy We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. Thomas Browne cures disease death There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Thomas Browne elements pieces religion Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. Thomas Browne enough may lows He is rich who hath enough to be charitable. Thomas Browne rich wealth money Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity. Thomas Browne jugglers flattery sincerity
