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Thomas Browne, Sr. Quotes

«He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: Bad Company
«There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.»
«Dreams out of the ivory gate, and visions before midnight.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: ivory
«But the quincunx of heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five ports of knowledge.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: ports
«Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: deprive
«Thus we are men and we know not how: there is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: be after
«I dare, without usurpation, assume the honourable style of a Christian.»
«And though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: bed of roses
«There is music in the beauty, and the silent note that cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we maintain the music of the spheres.»

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