For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
Thomas BrowneBy compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Thomas BrowneI 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 BrowneTo call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told me there was a reall truth therein: for first wee are a rude masse, and in the ranke of creatures, which only are, and have a dull kinde of being not yet priviledged with life, or preferred to sense or reason; next we live the life of plants, the life of animals, the life of men, and at last the life of spirits, running on in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existence, which comprehend the creatures not onely of world, but of the Universe.
Thomas Browne