da Religio Medici, parte II, sez. 1
Origine: Citato in Mario Praz, L'investigatore Thomas Browne, La Cultura, ottobre 1929.
Thomas Browne frasi celebri
citato in Focus n. 73, p. 166
da Hydriotaphia
Origine: Citato in E. A. Poe – I Delitti della Rue Morgue.
Thomas Browne: Frasi in inglese
“This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.”
Section 38
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”
Origine: Prose: "Religio Medici" , "Hydriotaphia" , "Garden of Cyrus" , "Letter to a Friend" , "Christian Morals" and Selections from Other Works
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others”
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
Letter to a Friend (circa 1656)
“The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.”
Origine: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V
“I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.”
Section 12
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
“The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.”
Section 51
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
“I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.”
Dedication
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
“Art is the perfection of nature.”
Section 16
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
“In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.”
Origine: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter I
“When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.”
Pseudodoxia Epidemica Book 5, Ch. 22, sect. 6
“The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.”
Part I, Section XXIV
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)