Quote #35

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.

More from Sir Thomas Browne

  1. Happy are they that go to bed with grave music.
  2. That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
  3. Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
  4. That children dream not the first half year, that men dream not in some countries, with many more, are unto me sick men's dreams, dreams ou…
  5. Aristotle whilst he labours to refute the Idea's of Plato, falls upon one himself: for his summum bonum, is a Chimera, and there is no such…
  6. Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be …
  7. We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
  8. In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.

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