219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb’s the Universe.

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.

There is another man within me that’s angry with me.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but ’tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

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.

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans’d unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

Flat and flexible truths are beat out by every hammer; But Vulcan and his whole forge sweat to work out Achilles his armour.

But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.