Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Brownewas an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Browne's literary works are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffering from melancholia, his writings are also characterised by wit...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 October 1605
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny; but I have no confidence on those which are fathered on the dead.
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.