Thomas Browne Quotes About Life
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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
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Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
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Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.
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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.
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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.
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For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
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There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
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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.
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