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stand afraid and start at us.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 40
Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes to
behold felicity; the first day of our Jubilee is death.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 44
He forgets that he can die who complains of misery, we are in the power of no calamity, while
death is in our own.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 1, sect. 44
All places, all airs make unto me one country: I am in England, everywhere, and under any
meridian.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 2, sect. 1
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do condemn and laugh at, it is that
great enemy of reason, virtue and religion, the multitude, that numerous piece of monstrosity,
which taken asunder seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God; but confused together, make
but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 2, sect. 1
This trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life,
nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what
an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9
Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than
the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is a harmony, order or proportion;
and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well-ordered motions, and
regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note
most full of harmony.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9
For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 2, sect. 11
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no
homage unto the sun.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 2, sect. 11
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits which are
the house of life.
‘Religio Medici’ (1643) pt. 2, sect. 12
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part
of our lives.
S. Wilkin (ed.) ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Works’ (1835) vol. 4, p. 355 ‘On Dreams’
That children dream not in the first half year, that men dream not in some countries, are to me