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“There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 10
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

World

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

Thomas Browne

On Dreams

Death , Parting

“There is no road or ready way to virtue.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 55
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

Way

“What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.”

Thomas Browne book Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V. Cf Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: "Tiberius," Ch 70

Women , Question

“Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 44
Compare: "I know death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to take their exits.", John Webster, Duchess of Malfi (1623); Act IV, scene ii.
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

Life , Death , Men , God

“The world that I regard is my selfe, it is the Microcosme of mine owne frame, that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my Globe, and turne it round sometimes for my recreation. Men that look upon my outside, perusing onely my condition, and fortunes, do erre in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 12
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

Men , World

“That Vulcan gave arrows unto Apollo and Diana the fourth day after their Nativities, according to Gentile Theology, may pass for no blind apprehension of the Creation of the Sun and Moon, in the work of the fourth day.”

Thomas Browne book The Garden of Cyrus

Opening lines of Ch. 1
The Garden of Cyrus (1658)

Sun

“Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.”

Thomas Browne book Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter IV

World , Happiness

“For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 11
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

World

“We carry with us the wonders, we seek without us: There is all Africa, and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies, wisely learns in a compendium, what others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 15
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

Nature , Study , Learning

“Rich with the spoils of Nature.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 8
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

Nature

“I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of a horse. It is my temper, & I like it the better, to affect all harmony, and sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

Beauty , Music , Horse

“No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 4
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

“I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

Love

“But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.”

Thomas Browne book Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V

Life , Death , Nature , Sun

“A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's Den, and are but Embryon Philosophers.”

Thomas Browne book Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter IV

World

“We vainly accuse the fury of guns, and the new inventions of death; it is in the power of every hand to destroy us, and we are beholden unto every one we meet he doth not kill us.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 44
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

Death

“Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.”

Thomas Browne

Letter to a Friend (circa 1656)

Life , Death , Fear