219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.