English physician & author (1605-1682)
To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
There is no man alone, because every man is a microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Religio Medici
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial