Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it. Thomas Browne More Quotes by Thomas Browne More Quotes From Thomas Browne All the wonders you seek are within yourself. Thomas Browne self-respectbullyingself-esteem Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. Thomas Browne richdiesthinking We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. Thomas Browne wisdomjourneyspiritual Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. Thomas Browne pebblesmayinspirational The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself. Thomas Browne devilheartmen By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. Thomas Browne miserysadnesscompassion There is no royal road or ready way to virtue. Thomas Browne royalcharacterway Light is the shadow of God. Thomas Browne shadowlight The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity. Thomas Browne parentheseseternityworld Think before you act; think twice before you speak. Thomas Browne think-before-you-actspeakthinking I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me. Thomas Browne adversityalivemen Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. Thomas Browne passioninspirationalmen Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. Thomas Browne being-alonesolitudeself There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. Thomas Browne silentsoundlife No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. Thomas Browne judgementknowsmen 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 (Death is) A leap into the dark. Thomas Browne leapdarkdeath Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Thomas Browne animalmendeath Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces. Thomas Browne philosophicalnaturephilosophy I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell. Thomas Browne hellhonestyheaven