More from Sir Thomas Browne

  1. And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy th…
  2. Be charitable before Wealth makes thee covetous.
  3. Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their…
  4. Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
  5. To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
  6. The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.
  7. To keep our eyes open longer were but to set our Antipodes. The Huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in …
  8. He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

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