Author: Thomas Browne

Quotes

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

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

- Thomas Browne

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

- Thomas Browne

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

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

- Thomas Browne

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

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

- Thomas Browne

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

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

- Thomas Browne

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

- Thomas Browne

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

- Thomas Browne

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

- 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.

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.

- Thomas Browne

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