More from Sir Thomas Browne

  1. Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.
  2. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all con…
  3. Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
  4. To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
  5. A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, where…
  6. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who…
  7. In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.
  8. Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the k…

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