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Sir Thomas Browne Quotes

Author
Born On
1605-10-19
Died On
1682-10-19
Birth Place
London, England
Death Place
Norwich, England
Birth Sign
libra
Nationality
British
Education
The University of Oxford, Leiden University, University Of Padua, Université Montpellier 2

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Sir Thomas Browne

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

Sir Thomas Browne

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Sir Thomas Browne

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Sir Thomas Browne

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Sir Thomas Browne

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

Sir Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Sir Thomas Browne

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

Sir Thomas Browne

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Sir Thomas Browne

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Sir Thomas Browne

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Sir Thomas Browne

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

Sir Thomas Browne

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

Sir Thomas Browne

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Browne

For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.

Sir Thomas Browne

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Sir Thomas Browne