Top 7 Quotes by William Browne

There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

Summer, Spring, Fall

William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

William Browne

Trying, Investing, Natural

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

William Browne

Garden, Heaven, Providence

Nicholas Breton, George Wither, William Browne (1906). “Nicholas Breton: Pastoral Poems; George Wither: Selected Poetry; William Browne (of Tavistock): Pastoral Poetry”

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

William Browne

Horse, Kings, Book

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.

William Browne

Clouds, Affliction, Hours

But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

William Browne

Death, Garden, Heaven

William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”