57 ordspråk av Thomas Browne, Sr.
Thomas Browne, Sr.
 Thus we are men and we know not how: there is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us. |
| To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back |
| Vice may be had at all prices |
| We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases |
| We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. |
| We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers. |
| We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers. |
| What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. |
| Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. |
| Yet at my devotion I love to use the civility of my knee, my hat, and hand. |
| Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner |
| Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner |
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