219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.