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„Жизнь — это чистое пламя, мы живем с невидимым солнцем внутри нас.“

„С помощью сострадания мы превращаем чужое несчастье в своё собственное и, изживая его, оживаем сами.“

„Все мы стараемся изо всех сил, чтобы не выздороветь, — ведь выздоровление от всех болезней есть смерть.“

„Привязанность не должна обладать слишком острым зрением, а любовь не должна изготавливаться при помощи увеличительных стекол.“

„Не думаю, чтобы нашелся хотя бы один человек, который попал в рай со страху.“

„Ступайте с осторожностью и с оглядкой по узкой и извилистой тропе добра.“

Томас Браун цитаты

„Если бы вещи воспринимались такими, какие они есть в действительности, телесная красота значительно бы поблекла.“

„Не Фортуна слепа, а мы.“

„То, что для одного Вера, для другого — безумие.“

„Все мы чудовища, то бишь, люди и звери одновременно.“

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„Мир для меня не более чем сон или кукольный театр… Все мы, если вдуматься, фигляры и скоморохи…“

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Источник: Двойное рассуждение

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“Sleep is a death; oh, make me try
By sleeping what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave as now my bed.”

Источник: Афоризмы Британии

Томас Браун: Цитаты на английском языке

“To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun”

Thomas Browne книга Religio Medici

Section 12
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

“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 Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which freed us from everlasting sleep? or have slumbering thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and as some conjecture all shall awake again?”

Letter to a Friend (circa 1656)

“Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables.”

Thomas Browne книга The Garden of Cyrus

Источник: The Garden of Cyrus (1658), Ch. 5

“That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.”

Thomas Browne книга Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Источник: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V

“To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.”

On Dreams

“I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.”

Thomas Browne книга Christian Morals

Part III, Section XII
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“Pursue Virtue virtuously.”

Thomas Browne книга Religio Medici

Section 45
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

“To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.”

These words also appear in Christian Morals, Part I, Section I
Letter to a Friend (circa 1656)

“Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.”

Thomas Browne книга Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Источник: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V

“But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world, yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his own executioner.”

Thomas Browne книга Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Dedication
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)

“It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.”

Thomas Browne книга Religio Medici

Section 4
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

“How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.”

Thomas Browne книга Religio Medici

Section 2
Religio Medici (1643), Part II

“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”

Thomas Browne книга Religio Medici

Section 48
Religio Medici (1643), Part I

“Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.”

Thomas Browne книга Christian Morals

Part III, Section XXIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“Who will not commend the wit of astrology? Venus, born out of the sea, hath her exaltation in Pisces.”

Thomas Browne книга Christian Morals

Part I, Section XIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“Burden not the back of Aries, Leo, or Taurus, with thy faults, nor make Saturn, Mars, or Venus, guilty of thy Follies.”

Commonplace notebooks, Part I

“A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.”

Thomas Browne книга Christian Morals

Part III, Section VII
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)