Thomas Browne: Trending quotes (page 4)

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

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 12
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

Death , Sleep

“To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun”

Thomas Browne

Letter to a Friend (circa 1656)

God , World , Sun

“To keep our eyes open longer were but to set our Antipodes. The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and as some conjecture all shall awake again?”

Thomas Browne book The Garden of Cyrus

Source: The Garden of Cyrus (1658), Ch. 5

Sleep , Time , Past

“Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables.”

Thomas Browne book Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

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

Sense , Light , Affliction , Memory

“That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.”

Thomas Browne

On Dreams

Dreams

“To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.”

Thomas Browne book Christian Morals

Part III, Section XII
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

Sleep , Evil

“I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 45
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

World

“Pursue Virtue virtuously.”

Thomas Browne

These words also appear in Christian Morals, Part I, Section I
Letter to a Friend (circa 1656)

“To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.”

Thomas Browne book Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

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

History

“Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.”

Thomas Browne book Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Dedication
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)

Men , World , Time , Dead

“But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world, yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his own executioner.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 4
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

World , Home

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

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 2
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

Men

“How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 48
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

Faith , Question , Dead

“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”

Thomas Browne book Christian Morals

Part III, Section XXIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

World

“Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.”

Thomas Browne book Christian Morals

Part I, Section XIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“Who will not commend the wit of astrology? Venus, born out of the sea, hath her exaltation in Pisces.”

Thomas Browne

Commonplace notebooks, Part I

Sea

“Burden not the back of Aries, Leo, or Taurus, with thy faults, nor make Saturn, Mars, or Venus, guilty of thy Follies.”

Thomas Browne book Christian Morals

Part III, Section VII
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.”

Thomas Browne book Religio Medici

Section 6
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

Truth