Thomas Browne Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

• There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Sound, Silent

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

• Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Death, Warrior

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.82

• The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Long, Dying

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

• There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Character, Soul

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.102

• I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Past, Hours

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.61

• That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Believe, Miracle

  "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

• For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Science, World

  Religio Medici pt. 2, sec. 11 (1643)

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