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Thomas Browne - From the Beauty category:
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Belief category:
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Determination category:
Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Dreams category:
That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Envy category:
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Generosity category:
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Harmony category:
There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Humour category:
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Life category:
Life is pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Nature category:
Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Questions category:
Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time? (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Religion category:
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Solitude category:
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Uniqueness category:
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Wonder category:
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. (Thomas Browne)
Thomas Browne - From the Worth category:
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. (Thomas Browne)
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