They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. Thomas Browne More Quotes by Thomas Browne More Quotes From Thomas Browne 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 mentwoworld 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 wiselove-ismen 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 vagabondsthreebees 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 creditvictoryopinion 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 spheresmayorder 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 levelsmenmoving God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed. Thomas Browne inclinationactionmen Sleep is a death, O make me try Thomas Browne bedsleeptrying 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 scaredheavenway 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-ussuicidejobs 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 circlessolitudesaid 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 bodyspeaktime Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers. Thomas Browne brotherprayersleep As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it. Thomas Browne arithmeticlastssin 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 consentfancyseems 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 devilsolitudemen The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out. Thomas Browne sixworldyears 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 debtenvydumb Festination may prove Precipitation; Thomas Browne hasteprocrastinationwise I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms. Thomas Browne elephantsbearsbeauty
