Clerihew on an Urn Burial

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Sir Thomas Browne,
Of late renown,
While pious, is never preachy
In his Religio Medici.

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From Religio Medici and Urn Burial, by Sir Thomas Browne

NOT ALONE

"There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him."

From Part II, Section Nine

Daily Dose

From Urn Burial, by Sir Thomas Browne

SOME

"Some bones make best Skeletons, some bodies quick and speediest ashes."

From Chapter Three

Breakfast at the Bookstore # 20

Daily Dose

From Religio Medici & Other Writings, by Sir Thomas Browne

DIAGNOSIS

"He that is Weak-legg'd must not be in Love with Rome, nor an infirm Head with Venice or Paris."

From Letter to a Friend

Daily Dose

From Religio Medici & Other Writings, by Sir Thomas Browne

TO FORGIVE

"To forgive our Enemies, yet hope that God will punish them, is not to forgive enough."

From Christian Morals, Section XV

Daily Dose

From Religio Medici & Other Writings, by Sir Thomas Browne

OF OLD

"Of old Things we write something new, if Truth may receive addition, or Envy will allow any Thing new..."

From The Epistle Dedicatory, to The Garden of Cyrus

Daily Dose

From Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor's Life of Science & Faith, by Jeremiah Finch

NEVER

"I shall never be perswaded, that God hath shut up all the light of Learning within the Lanthorn of Aristotle's braines."

From Chapter 9, Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errrors, a quote from Walter Raleigh's Preface to his Historie of the World

Daily Dose

From Religio Medici & Other Writings, by Sir Thomas Browne

ALL THINGS

"All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical Mathematicks of the City of Heaven."

From Garden of Cyrus, Chapter 5

A Colloquy with God by Sir Thomas Browne

Daily Dose

From Religio Medici and Other Writings, by Sir Thomas Browne

THERE IS

"There is, I thinke, no man that apprehends his own miseries less than my self, and no man that so neerely apprehends anothers.  I could lose an arme without a teare, and with few groans be quartered into pieces; yet can I weepe most seriously at a Play, and recieve with a true passion, the counterfeit griefes of those knowne and professed Imposters."

From The Second Part

Daily Dose

From Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall, by Sir Thomas Browne

I CONFESSE

"I confesse I have perused them all, and can discover nothing that may startle a duscreet beliefe: yet are there heads carried off with the wind and breath of such motives."

From The First Part

Daily Dose

From Hydriotaphia, or, Urn Burial, by Sir Thomas Browne

OUR DAYS

"Our days become considerable, like petty sums, by minute accumulations; where numerous fractions make up small round numbers; and our days of a span long make not one little finger."

From Of Diuturnity and Oblivion

Daily Dose

From The Religio Medici and Other Writings, by Sir Thomas Browne

PLEASURES

"The pleasures of one age are not pleasures in another, and their Lives fall short of our own."

From Christian Morals, Part the Second

Daily Dose

From Religio Medici and Other Writings, by Sir Thomas Browne

CONVERSATION

"For my Conversation, it is like the Sun's, with all men, and with a friendly aspect to good and bad."

From Religio Medici, Part II