Thomas Browne - Sun Quotes

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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

Thomas Browne

That Vulcan gave arrows unto Apollo and Diana the fourth day after their Nativities, according to Gentile Theology, may pass for no blind apprehension of the Creation of the Sun and Moon, in the work of the fourth day.

Thomas Browne

There is surely a peece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.

Thomas Browne

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.

Thomas Browne

There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.

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To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun

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