The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
THOMAS BROWNE ... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain...
THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike...
THOMAS BROWNE There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
THOMAS BROWNE Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
THOMAS BROWNE Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
THOMAS BROWNE Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
THOMAS BROWNE We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
THOMAS BROWNE Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
THOMAS BROWNE Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari...
THOMAS BROWNE Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
THOMAS BROWNE There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
THOMAS BROWNE Natura nihil agit frustra, [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputed Axiome in Philosophy...
THOMAS BROWNE Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
THOMAS BROWNE Death is the cure for all diseases.
THOMAS BROWNE If there be any among those common objects of hatred which I can safely say I doe contemn and laugh ...
THOMAS BROWNE Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
THOMAS BROWNE It is we that are blind, not fortune.
THOMAS BROWNE Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the trues...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Life is pure flame.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pro...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to depriv...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Death is the cure for all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And first Satan's endeavours have ever been, and they cease not yet to instill a belief in the minde...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effec...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping m...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is no road or ready way to virtue.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is we that are blind, not fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and es...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE God is like a skilful Geometrician.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary sp...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is b...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table amon...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: I desire to exercise my faith in the...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good
THOMAS BROWNE, SR. Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pr...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident o...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Women do most delight in revenge.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot ho...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, i...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homag...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puz...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to pros...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes t...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. A rich man's joke is always funny
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Continuing a series on God and the human condition: If we...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die: And as gently lay my head ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Vice may be had at all prices
THOMAS BROWNE SR. By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also
THOMAS BROWNE SR. There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any w...
THOMAS BROWNE SR. Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
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 af...
THOMAS BROWNE, SR. There is music in the beauty, and the silent note that cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of ...
THOMAS BROWNE, SR. A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
HARRY BROWNE Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they kn...
HARRY BROWNE What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently...
HARRY BROWNE You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - ...
HARRY BROWNE Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world...
HARRY BROWNE Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their ow...
HARRY BROWNE There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - ki...
HARRY BROWNE You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
HARRY BROWNE Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government ...
HARRY BROWNE When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them s...
HARRY BROWNE Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to m...
HARRY BROWNE In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was pr...
HARRY BROWNE I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, relea...
HARRY BROWNE Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while...
HARRY BROWNE It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken fo...
HARRY BROWNE The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
HARRY BROWNE Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while ...
HARRY BROWNE A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not j...
HARRY BROWNE Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life b...
HARRY BROWNE I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstr...
JACKSON BROWNE Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, peopl...
JACKSON BROWNE I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's h...
JACKSON BROWNE As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand...
JACKSON BROWNE Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicia...
JACKSON BROWNE I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a hous...
JACKSON BROWNE When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye...
JACKSON BROWNE That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most l...
JACKSON BROWNE We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don...
JACKSON BROWNE The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that&...
JACKSON BROWNE So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instr...
JACKSON BROWNE Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's ...
JACKSON BROWNE I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roo...
JACKSON BROWNE That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make ...
JACKSON BROWNE I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a ba...
JACKSON BROWNE You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to y...
JACKSON BROWNE I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I bel...
JACKSON BROWNE Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize ...
JACKSON BROWNE Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't ...
JACKSON BROWNE No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'l...
JACKSON BROWNE I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will l...
JACKSON BROWNE Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it...
JACKSON BROWNE You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.
SYLVIA BROWNE Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts t...
HARRY BROWNE Men don't know enough about being courteous toward women. You should get into a cab before a wom...
THOM BROWNE When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember...
JACKSON BROWNE Don't confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.
JACKSON BROWNE Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? T...
HARRY BROWNE Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're w...
HARRY BROWNE When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the wor...
HARRY BROWNE No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alo...
JACKSON BROWNE The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.
HARRY BROWNE You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- ev...
HARRY BROWNE Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make ...
HARRY BROWNE The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
MERRY BROWNE You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to p...
HARRY BROWNE You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there.
HARRY BROWNE Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good cons...
HARRY BROWNE The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
MARY BROWNE I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the ...
THOM BROWNE The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
SYLVIA BROWNE A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they&#...
SYLVIA BROWNE Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.
ANTHONY BROWNE Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religiou...
HARRY BROWNE The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, mor...
HARRY BROWNE I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.
SYLVIA BROWNE The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of...
ANTHONY BROWNE The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a care...
HARRY BROWNE Since Brooks Brothers is a 189-year-old company, there are plenty of references and inspirations I c...
THOM BROWNE This is state of the art technology that will put us ahead of most other universities because most o...
ALICIA BROWNE Although it's a new thing for the University, it is really very common.
ALICIA BROWNE For students, it will seem like any other residence hall. They are going to be run by our department...
ALICIA BROWNE The numbers are very good, but they didn't exceed what we expected.
ALICIA BROWNE We expect to be able to accommodate all of the residents who want to remain in Palmer and any women ...
ALICIA BROWNE I do think that the staff in a suite-style residence hall has to take into consideration that helpin...
ALICIA BROWNE We have found that there is no one style of residence hall that is perfect for every student. That's...
ALICIA BROWNE Based on past experience with Bryce Lawn, we should be able to accommodate the students who want to ...
ALICIA BROWNE If you want to live with us, you'll have to have that in.
ALICIA BROWNE Energy costs have increased all over campus since Hurricane Katrina. It affects not only our heating...
ALICIA BROWNE Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.
ANTHONY BROWNE A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, a...
HARRY BROWNE