That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.
Thomas BrowneThink not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
Thomas BrowneCircles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.
Thomas Browne