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Thomas Browne Quotes about Life

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

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.

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

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)

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

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

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

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".

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