To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief. Thomas Browne More Quotes by Thomas Browne More Quotes From Thomas Browne 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 hairphilosophyart 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 timelongthinking Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time? Thomas Browne best-of-meremarkablemen There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. Thomas Browne understandinggivingorder The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric. Thomas Browne realphilosophyschool The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence. Thomas Browne loving-friendssilencetables I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen. Thomas Browne furypensshock There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. Thomas Browne unnecessaryspacenature Rich with the spoils of nature. Thomas Browne spoilrichnature He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). Thomas Browne moralchristian Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes. Thomas Browne ashesgoldmen There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. Thomas Browne immortal-soulimmortalitymay Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Thomas Browne gravestonefortyyears He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe. Thomas Browne graveswantlying Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible. Thomas Browne invisiblelight A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. Thomas Browne Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. Thomas Browne losealonesocietysolitude To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. Thomas Browne onlyfaithphilosophybelieve Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. Thomas Browne makesbeforeyouwealth There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. Thomas Browne carrycannotmottomay
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